Wright City, MO

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:2981124, place: Wright City city, Missouri)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 312 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 31 (9.94%)
Kindergarten: 21 (6.73%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 158 (50.64%)
High school (grades 9-12): 66 (21.15%)
College or graduate school: 36 (11.54%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 892 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 77 (8.63%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 148 (16.59%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 370 (41.48%)
Some college, no degree: 181 (20.29%)
Associate degree: 57 (6.39%)
Bachelor's degree: 39 (4.37%)
Graduate or professional degree: 20 (2.24%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 74.8%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 6.6%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,126 (100%)
Never married: 276 (24.51%)
Now married, except separated: 578 (51.33%)
Separated: 23 (2.04%)
Total Widowed: 88 (7.82%)
Widowed Female: 72 (6.39%)
Total Divorced: 161 (14.3%)
Divorced Female: 106 (9.41%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 25 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 7 (28%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,081 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 147 (13.6%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 335 (100%)
--With a disability: 49 (14.63%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 824 (100%)
--With a disability: 170 (20.63%)
----Percent employed: 68.2%
--No disability: 654 (79.37%)
----Percent employed: 81.3%
Population 65 years and over: 189 (100%)
--With a disability: 104 (55.03%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,348 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 605 (44.88%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 694 (51.48%)
--Same county: 358 (26.56%)
--Different county: 336 (24.93%)
----Same state: 248 (18.4%)
----Different state: 88 (6.53%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 49 (3.64%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,506 (100%)
Native: 1,427 (94.75%)
--Born in United States: 1,417 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,195 (79.35%)
----Different state: 222 (14.74%)
--Born outside United States: 10 (0.66%)
Foreign born: 79 (5.25%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 74 (4.91%)
--Naturalized citizen: 15 (1%)
--Not a citizen: 64 (4.25%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 79 (100%)
Europe: 2 (2.53%)
Asia: 2 (2.53%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 75 (94.94%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,348 (100%)
English only: 1,256 (93.18%)
Language other than English: 92 (6.82%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 41 (3.04%)
--Spanish: 83 (6.16%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 41 (3.04%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 4 (0.3%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 2 (0.15%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,506 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,419% (94.22%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 3 (0.2%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 46 (3.05%)
English: 87 (5.78%)
French (except Basque): 57 (3.78%)
French Canadian: 3 (0.2%)
German: 431 (28.62%)
Greek: 9 (0.6%)
Hungarian: 10 (0.66%)
Irish: 171 (11.35%)
Italian: 56 (3.72%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 14 (0.93%)
Portuguese: 1 (0.07%)
Russian: 4 (0.27%)
Scotch-Irish: 14 (0.93%)
Scottish: 5 (0.33%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 6 (0.4%)
Swedish: 12 (0.8%)
Swiss: 2 (0.13%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 161 (10.69%)
Welsh: 2 (0.13%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 325 (21.58%)

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