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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: Dakota County, Minnesota

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

101,596

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

7,717

7.6

Kindergarten

5,882

5.8

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

48,156

47.4

High school (grades 9-12)

22,644

22.3

College or graduate school

17,197

16.9

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

224,313

100.0

Less than 9th grade

5,272

2.4

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

9,948

4.4

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

52,806

23.5

Some college, no degree

57,352

25.6

Associate degree

20,670

9.2

Bachelor's degree

57,346

25.6

Graduate or professional degree

20,919

9.3

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

93.2

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

34.9

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

268,900

100.0

Never married

68,666

25.5

Now married, except separated

163,683

60.9

Separated

2,145

0.8

Widowed

9,961

3.7

Female

8,066

3.0

Divorced

24,445

9.1

Female

14,381

5.3

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

2,977

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

1,029

34.6

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

251,692

100.0

Civilian veterans

31,776

12.6

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

87,733

100.0

With a disability

6,003

6.8

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

213,544

100.0

With a disability

26,133

12.2

Percent employed

72.2

(X)

No disability

187,411

87.8

Percent employed

87.0

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

25,721

100.0

With a disability

9,392

36.5

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

328,482

100.0

Same house in 1995

178,360

54.3

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

144,837

44.1

Same county

65,973

20.1

Different county

78,864

24.0

Same state

50,678

15.4

Different state

28,186

8.6

Elsewhere in 1995

5,285

1.6

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

355,904

100.0

Native

337,855

94.9

Born in United States

335,193

94.2

State of residence

237,668

66.8

Different state

97,525

27.4

Born outside United States

2,662

0.7

Foreign born

18,049

5.1

Entered 1990 to March 2000

9,047

2.5

Naturalized citizen

8,456

2.4

Not a citizen

9,593

2.7

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

18,049

100.0

Europe

3,827

21.2

Asia

7,679

42.5

Africa

1,466

8.1

Oceania

163

0.9

Latin America

3,778

20.9

Northern America

1,136

6.3

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

328,482

100.0

English only

303,539

92.4

Language other than English

24,943

7.6

Speak English less than 'very well

9,658

2.9

Spanish

8,499

2.6

Speak English less than "very well"

3,382

1.0

Other Indo-European languages

8,167

2.5

Speak English less than "very well"

2,452

0.7

Asian and Pacific Island languages

6,277

1.9

Speak English less than "very well"

3,133

1.0

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

355,904

100.0

Total ancestries reported

466,362

131.0

Arab

1,858

0.5

Czech1

8,029

2.3

Danish

6,181

1.7

Dutch

6,971

2.0

English

25,173

7.1

French (except Basque)1

14,963

4.2

French Canadian1

4,306

1.2

German

139,083

39.1

Greek

1,069

0.3

Hungarian

1,023

0.3

Irish1

53,766

15.1

Italian

10,945

3.1

Lithuanian

708

0.2

Norwegian

56,950

16.0

Polish

16,909

4.8

Portuguese

126

0.0

Russian

3,077

0.9

Scotch-Irish

3,596

1.0

Scottish

5,270

1.5

Slovak

721

0.2

Subsaharan African

2,006

0.6

Swedish

32,587

9.2

Swiss

1,966

0.6

Ukrainian

1,692

0.5

United States or American

10,196

2.9

Welsh

1,861

0.5

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

227

0.1

Other ancestries

55,103

15.5

(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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