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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: Washington County, Kansas

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

1,403

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

103

7.3

Kindergarten

84

6.0

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

692

49.3

High school (grades 9-12)

385

27.4

College or graduate school

139

9.9

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

4,572

100.0

Less than 9th grade

521

11.4

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

337

7.4

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

1,744

38.1

Some college, no degree

1,054

23.1

Associate degree

223

4.9

Bachelor's degree

492

10.8

Graduate or professional degree

201

4.4

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

81.2

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

15.2

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

5,243

100.0

Never married

986

18.8

Now married, except separated

3,391

64.7

Separated

17

0.3

Widowed

525

10.0

Female

443

8.4

Divorced

324

6.2

Female

146

2.8

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

48

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

27

56.3

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

4,945

100.0

Civilian veterans

737

14.9

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

1,339

100.0

With a disability

84

6.3

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

3,145

100.0

With a disability

547

17.4

Percent employed

66.9

(X)

No disability

2,598

82.6

Percent employed

88.5

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

1,446

100.0

With a disability

595

41.1

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

6,113

100.0

Same house in 1995

4,313

70.6

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

1,778

29.1

Same county

894

14.6

Different county

884

14.5

Same state

581

9.5

Different state

303

5.0

Elsewhere in 1995

22

0.4

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

6,483

100.0

Native

6,451

99.5

Born in United States

6,434

99.2

State of residence

4,897

75.5

Different state

1,537

23.7

Born outside United States

17

0.3

Foreign born

32

0.5

Entered 1990 to March 2000

21

0.3

Naturalized citizen

8

0.1

Not a citizen

24

0.4

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

32

100.0

Europe

6

18.8

Asia

0

0.0

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

24

75.0

Northern America

2

6.3

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

6,113

100.0

English only

5,942

97.2

Language other than English

171

2.8

Speak English less than 'very well

67

1.1

Spanish

67

1.1

Speak English less than "very well"

30

0.5

Other Indo-European languages

98

1.6

Speak English less than "very well"

37

0.6

Asian and Pacific Island languages

4

0.1

Speak English less than "very well"

0

0.0

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

6,483

100.0

Total ancestries reported

6,352

98.0

Arab

0

0.0

Czech1

275

4.2

Danish

54

0.8

Dutch

88

1.4

English

467

7.2

French (except Basque)1

309

4.8

French Canadian1

50

0.8

German

3,064

47.3

Greek

4

0.1

Hungarian

3

0.0

Irish1

585

9.0

Italian

46

0.7

Lithuanian

0

0.0

Norwegian

44

0.7

Polish

71

1.1

Portuguese

0

0.0

Russian

21

0.3

Scotch-Irish

70

1.1

Scottish

96

1.5

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

4

0.1

Swedish

258

4.0

Swiss

68

1.0

Ukrainian

0

0.0

United States or American

489

7.5

Welsh

14

0.2

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

2

0.0

Other ancestries

270

4.2

(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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