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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: Clay County, Iowa

NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Subject

Number

Percent

 

 

 

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

 

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school

4,161

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

429

10.3

Kindergarten

255

6.1

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

1,938

46.6

High school (grades 9-12)

1,037

24.9

College or graduate school

502

12.1

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

11,692

100.0

Less than 9th grade

536

4.6

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

868

7.4

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

4,306

36.8

Some college, no degree

3,079

26.3

Associate degree

1,000

8.6

Bachelor's degree

1,569

13.4

Graduate or professional degree

334

2.9

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

88.0

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

16.3

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

13,874

100.0

Never married

2,910

21.0

Now married, except separated

8,389

60.5

Separated

120

0.9

Widowed

1,114

8.0

Female

945

6.8

Divorced

1,341

9.7

Female

763

5.5

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years

90

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

25

27.8

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

13,073

100.0

Civilian veterans

1,843

14.1

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

3,723

100.0

With a disability

268

7.2

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

9,407

100.0

With a disability

1,394

14.8

Percent employed

70.9

(X)

No disability

8,013

85.2

Percent employed

87.2

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

2,857

100.0

With a disability

1,047

36.6

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

16,288

100.0

Same house in 1995

9,814

60.3

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

6,376

39.1

Same county

3,477

21.3

Different county

2,899

17.8

Same state

1,767

10.8

Different state

1,132

6.9

Elsewhere in 1995

98

0.6

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

17,372

100.0

Native

17,055

98.2

Born in United States

17,009

97.9

State of residence

13,269

76.4

Different state

3,740

21.5

Born outside United States

46

0.3

Foreign born

317

1.8

Entered 1990 to March 2000

167

1.0

Naturalized citizen

118

0.7

Not a citizen

199

1.1

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

317

100.0

Europe

58

18.3

Asia

113

35.6

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

134

42.3

Northern America

12

3.8

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

16,288

100.0

English only

15,717

96.5

Language other than English

571

3.5

Speak English less than 'very well

240

1.5

Spanish

315

1.9

Speak English less than "very well"

169

1.0

Other Indo-European languages

154

0.9

Speak English less than "very well"

27

0.2

Asian and Pacific Island languages

102

0.6

Speak English less than "very well"

44

0.3

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

17,372

100.0

Total ancestries reported

19,508

112.3

Arab

0

0.0

Czech1

213

1.2

Danish

1,098

6.3

Dutch

1,246

7.2

English

1,332

7.7

French (except Basque)1

540

3.1

French Canadian1

107

0.6

German

7,376

42.5

Greek

51

0.3

Hungarian

8

0.0

Irish1

1,777

10.2

Italian

254

1.5

Lithuanian

25

0.1

Norwegian

1,727

9.9

Polish

58

0.3

Portuguese

2

0.0

Russian

24

0.1

Scotch-Irish

197

1.1

Scottish

226

1.3

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

0

0.0

Swedish

1,039

6.0

Swiss

123

0.7

Ukrainian

0

0.0

United States or American

876

5.0

Welsh

141

0.8

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

4

0.0

Other ancestries

1,064

6.1

(X) Not applicable.
1 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.
Ancestry Code List (PDF 35KB)
Place of Birth Code List (PDF 74KB)
Language Code List (PDF 17KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P18, P19, P21, P22, P24, P36, P37, P39, P42, PCT8, PCT16, PCT17, and PCT19



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