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Mitchell County:Snow Creek 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 1,731 100.0
      enrolled in school 285 100.0   Native 1,729 99.9
Nursery school, preschool 24 8.4       Born in United States 1,722 99.5
Kindergarten 15 5.3           State of residence 1,399 80.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 118 41.4           Different state 323 18.7
High school (grades 9-12) 41 14.4       Born outside United States 7 0.4
College or graduate school 87 30.5   Foreign born 2 0.1
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 1,307 100.0       Not a citizen 2 0.1
Less than 9th grade 124 9.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 210 16.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 494 37.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 2 100.0
Some college, no degree 243 18.6   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 47 3.6   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 140 10.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 49 3.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 74.4 (X)   Northern America 2 100.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 14.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,621 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,485 100.0   English only 1,568 96.7
Never married 174 11.7   Language other than English 53 3.3
Now married, except separated 1,080 72.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 12 0.7
Separated 28 1.9   Spanish 53 3.3
Widowed 114 7.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 12 0.7
 Female 84 5.7   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 89 6.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 35 2.4   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 1,731 100.0
           under 18 years 12 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,401 80.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 12 100.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,453 100.0   Dutch 6 0.3
Civilian veterans 204 14.0   English 273 15.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 8 0.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 8 0.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 149 8.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 204 100.0   Greek 12 0.7
With a disability 2 1.0   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,134 100.0   Irish¹ 167 9.6
With a disability 242 21.3   Italian 46 2.7
 Percent employed 40.1 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 892 78.7   Norwegian 7 0.4
 Percent employed 71.2 (X)   Polish 10 0.6
     Population 65 years and over 283 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 123 43.5   Russian 5 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 155 9.0
        Scottish 49 2.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,621 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,043 64.3   Swedish 32 1.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 572 35.3   Swiss 5 0.3
 Same county 307 18.9   Ukrainian 10 0.6
 Different county 265 16.3   United States or American 313 18.1
  Same state 197 12.2   Welsh 2 0.1
  Different state 68 4.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 6 0.4   Other ancestries 144 8.3
             
-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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