Blooming Prairie, MN

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:2706580, place: Blooming Prairie city, Minnesota)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 454 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 20 (4.41%)
Kindergarten: 8 (1.76%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 252 (55.51%)
High school (grades 9-12): 123 (27.09%)
College or graduate school: 51 (11.23%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,289 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 132 (10.24%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 93 (7.21%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 465 (36.07%)
Some college, no degree: 283 (21.96%)
Associate degree: 102 (7.91%)
Bachelor's degree: 161 (12.49%)
Graduate or professional degree: 53 (4.11%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 82.5%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 16.6%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,539 (100%)
Never married: 301 (19.56%)
Now married, except separated: 914 (59.39%)
Separated: 31 (2.01%)
Total Widowed: 162 (10.53%)
Widowed Female: 134 (8.71%)
Total Divorced: 131 (8.51%)
Divorced Female: 61 (3.96%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 17 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 3 (17.65%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,441 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 185 (12.84%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 403 (100%)
--With a disability: 28 (6.95%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 966 (100%)
--With a disability: 98 (10.14%)
----Percent employed: 72.4%
--No disability: 868 (89.86%)
----Percent employed: 87.6%
Population 65 years and over: 357 (100%)
--With a disability: 116 (32.49%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,815 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 1,077 (59.34%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 736 (40.55%)
--Same county: 437 (24.08%)
--Different county: 299 (16.47%)
----Same state: 223 (12.29%)
----Different state: 76 (4.19%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 2 (0.11%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,930 (100%)
Native: 1,908 (98.86%)
--Born in United States: 1,901 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,540 (79.79%)
----Different state: 361 (18.7%)
--Born outside United States: 7 (0.36%)
Foreign born: 22 (1.14%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 0 (0%)
--Naturalized citizen: 19 (0.98%)
--Not a citizen: 3 (0.16%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 22 (100%)
Europe: 8 (36.36%)
Asia: 4 (18.18%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 8 (36.36%)
Northern America: 2 (9.09%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,815 (100%)
English only: 1,722 (94.88%)
Language other than English: 93 (5.12%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 22 (1.21%)
--Spanish: 68 (3.75%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 13 (0.72%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 14 (0.77%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 2 (0.11%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 9 (0.5%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 7 (0.39%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,930 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,442% (126.53%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 145 (7.51%)
Danish: 116 (6.01%)
Dutch: 17 (0.88%)
English: 109 (5.65%)
French (except Basque): 37 (1.92%)
French Canadian: 5 (0.26%)
German: 730 (37.82%)
Greek: 3 (0.16%)
Hungarian: 2 (0.1%)
Irish: 216 (11.19%)
Italian: 9 (0.47%)
Lithuanian: 2 (0.1%)
Norwegian: 689 (35.7%)
Polish: 38 (1.97%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 13 (0.67%)
Scottish: 7 (0.36%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 74 (3.83%)
Swiss: 13 (0.67%)
Ukrainian: 2 (0.1%)
United States or American: 44 (2.28%)
Welsh: 6 (0.31%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 165 (8.55%)

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