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Mitchell County:Poplar Township:2000

DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics

Subject Number Percent   Subject Number Percent
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT       NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH    
     Population 3 years and over            Total poplulation 332 100.0
      enrolled in school 55 100.0   Native 332 100.0
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 332 100.0
Kindergarten 0 0.0           State of residence 201 60.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 36 65.5           Different state 131 39.5
High school (grades 9-12) 12 21.8       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 7 12.7   Foreign born 0 0.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 245 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 106 43.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 43 17.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 70 28.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 0 N/A
Some college, no degree 21 8.6   Europe 0 N/A
Associate degree 0 0.0   Asia 0 N/A
Bachelor's degree 5 2.0   Africa 0 N/A
Graduate or professional degree 0 0.0   Oceania 0 N/A
        Latin America 0 N/A
Percent high school graduate or higher 39.2 (X)   Northern America 0 N/A
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 2.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 320 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 278 100.0   English only 304 95.0
Never married 49 17.6   Language other than English 16 5.0
Now married, except separated 174 62.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 1.6
Separated 5 1.8   Spanish 9 2.8
Widowed 46 16.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 1.6
 Female 33 11.9   Other Indo-European languages 7 2.2
Divorced 4 1.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 0 0.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 332 100.0
           under 18 years 0 N/A     Total ancestries reported 240 72.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 N/A   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 271 100.0   Dutch 0 0.0
Civilian veterans 13 4.8   English 11 3.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 0 0.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 19 5.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 68 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 8 11.8   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 163 100.0   Irish¹ 15 4.5
With a disability 67 41.1   Italian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 10.4 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 96 58.9   Norwegian 3 0.9
 Percent employed 80.2 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 89 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 56 62.9   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 4 1.2
        Scottish 0 0.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 320 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 267 83.4   Swedish 30 9.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 53 16.6   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 13 4.1   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 40 12.5   United States or American 95 28.6
  Same state 40 12.5   Welsh 19 5.7
  Different state 0 0.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 44 13.3
             
-Represent zero or rounds to zero.    (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.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.
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