Wellsville, KS

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:2076625, place: Wellsville city, Kansas)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 439 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 23 (5.24%)
Kindergarten: 25 (5.69%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 229 (52.16%)
High school (grades 9-12): 96 (21.87%)
College or graduate school: 66 (15.03%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,026 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 37 (3.61%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 115 (11.21%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 431 (42.01%)
Some college, no degree: 239 (23.29%)
Associate degree: 63 (6.14%)
Bachelor's degree: 96 (9.36%)
Graduate or professional degree: 45 (4.39%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 85.2%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 13.7%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,232 (100%)
Never married: 222 (18.02%)
Now married, except separated: 719 (58.36%)
Separated: 15 (1.22%)
Total Widowed: 116 (9.42%)
Widowed Female: 105 (8.52%)
Total Divorced: 160 (12.99%)
Divorced Female: 77 (6.25%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 24 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 15 (62.5%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,156 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 142 (12.28%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 385 (100%)
--With a disability: 27 (7.01%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 866 (100%)
--With a disability: 157 (18.13%)
----Percent employed: 73.2%
--No disability: 709 (81.87%)
----Percent employed: 84.1%
Population 65 years and over: 209 (100%)
--With a disability: 102 (48.8%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,507 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 807 (53.55%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 683 (45.32%)
--Same county: 342 (22.69%)
--Different county: 341 (22.63%)
----Same state: 260 (17.25%)
----Different state: 81 (5.37%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 17 (1.13%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,619 (100%)
Native: 1,608 (99.32%)
--Born in United States: 1,595 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,130 (69.8%)
----Different state: 465 (28.72%)
--Born outside United States: 13 (0.8%)
Foreign born: 11 (0.68%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 3 (0.19%)
--Naturalized citizen: 9 (0.56%)
--Not a citizen: 2 (0.12%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 11 (100%)
Europe: 4 (36.36%)
Asia: 5 (45.45%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 2 (18.18%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,507 (100%)
English only: 1,466 (97.28%)
Language other than English: 41 (2.72%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 12 (0.8%)
--Spanish: 11 (0.73%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 4 (0.27%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 25 (1.66%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 8 (0.53%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 5 (0.33%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,619 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,479% (91.35%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 7 (0.43%)
Danish: 11 (0.68%)
Dutch: 28 (1.73%)
English: 128 (7.91%)
French (except Basque): 55 (3.4%)
French Canadian: 7 (0.43%)
German: 388 (23.97%)
Greek: 2 (0.12%)
Hungarian: 6 (0.37%)
Irish: 200 (12.35%)
Italian: 17 (1.05%)
Lithuanian: 9 (0.56%)
Norwegian: 23 (1.42%)
Polish: 14 (0.86%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 10 (0.62%)
Scotch-Irish: 31 (1.91%)
Scottish: 36 (2.22%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 28 (1.73%)
Swiss: 3 (0.19%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 228 (14.08%)
Welsh: 7 (0.43%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 241 (14.89%)

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