DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kemper County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 10,453 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,955 | 100.0 | Native | 10,408 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 215 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 10,383 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 131 | 4.4 | State of residence | 9,180 | 87.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,266 | 42.8 | Different state | 1,203 | 11.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 614 | 20.8 | Born outside United States | 25 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 729 | 24.7 | Foreign born | 45 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 22 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 21 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,498 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 942 | 14.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,627 | 25.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,837 | 28.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 45 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 967 | 14.9 | Europe | 12 | 26.7 | |
| Associate degree | 455 | 7.0 | Asia | 12 | 26.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 430 | 6.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 240 | 3.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 15 | 33.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 60.5 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 13.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,745 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,289 | 100.0 | English only | 9,449 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 2,578 | 31.1 | Language other than English | 296 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,017 | 48.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 206 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 291 | 3.5 | Spanish | 102 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 831 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 47 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 674 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 42 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 572 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 320 | 3.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,453 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 402 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,759 | 74.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 256 | 63.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech� | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,807 | 100.0 | Dutch | 50 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 724 | 9.3 | English | 403 | 3.9 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 50 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 20 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 152 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,747 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 202 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,408 | 100.0 | Irish� | 355 | 3.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,508 | 27.9 | Italian | 76 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 46.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,900 | 72.1 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 67.6 | (X) | Polish | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,501 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 759 | 50.6 | Russian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 224 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 61 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,745 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 78 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,026 | 72.1 | Swedish | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,632 | 27.0 | Swiss | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,328 | 13.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,304 | 13.4 | United States or American | 1,064 | 10.2 | |
| Same state | 943 | 9.7 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 361 | 3.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 87 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 5,171 | 49.5 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| � The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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