La Porte City, IA

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:1943365, place: La Porte City city, Iowa)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 579 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 53 (9.15%)
Kindergarten: 36 (6.22%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 249 (43.01%)
High school (grades 9-12): 160 (27.63%)
College or graduate school: 81 (13.99%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,467 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 60 (4.09%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 114 (7.77%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 635 (43.29%)
Some college, no degree: 369 (25.15%)
Associate degree: 139 (9.48%)
Bachelor's degree: 106 (7.23%)
Graduate or professional degree: 44 (3%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 88.1%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 10.2%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,790 (100%)
Never married: 402 (22.46%)
Now married, except separated: 1,062 (59.33%)
Separated: 23 (1.28%)
Total Widowed: 172 (9.61%)
Widowed Female: 138 (7.71%)
Total Divorced: 131 (7.32%)
Divorced Female: 99 (5.53%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 36 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 29 (80.56%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,670 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 219 (13.11%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 490 (100%)
--With a disability: 48 (9.8%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,195 (100%)
--With a disability: 115 (9.62%)
----Percent employed: 68.7%
--No disability: 1,080 (90.38%)
----Percent employed: 86.9%
Population 65 years and over: 399 (100%)
--With a disability: 152 (38.1%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 2,084 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 1,148 (55.09%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 936 (44.91%)
--Same county: 609 (29.22%)
--Different county: 327 (15.69%)
----Same state: 235 (11.28%)
----Different state: 92 (4.41%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 0 (0%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 2,257 (100%)
Native: 2,235 (99.03%)
--Born in United States: 2,232 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,914 (84.8%)
----Different state: 318 (14.09%)
--Born outside United States: 3 (0.13%)
Foreign born: 22 (0.97%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 0 (0%)
--Naturalized citizen: 10 (0.44%)
--Not a citizen: 12 (0.53%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 22 (100%)
Europe: 3 (13.64%)
Asia: 0 (0%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 12 (54.55%)
Northern America: 7 (31.82%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 2,084 (100%)
English only: 2,026 (97.22%)
Language other than English: 58 (2.78%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 4 (0.19%)
--Spanish: 30 (1.44%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 4 (0.19%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 28 (1.34%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 2,257 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,323% (102.92%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 25 (1.11%)
Danish: 67 (2.97%)
Dutch: 72 (3.19%)
English: 263 (11.65%)
French (except Basque): 56 (2.48%)
French Canadian: 3 (0.13%)
German: 1,055 (46.74%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 303 (13.42%)
Italian: 4 (0.18%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 110 (4.87%)
Polish: 13 (0.58%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 6 (0.27%)
Scotch-Irish: 11 (0.49%)
Scottish: 33 (1.46%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 8 (0.35%)
Swedish: 38 (1.68%)
Swiss: 3 (0.13%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 165 (7.31%)
Welsh: 11 (0.49%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 77 (3.41%)

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