DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Autauga County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 43,671 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,887 | 100.0 | Native | 43,162 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 690 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 42,425 | 97.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 773 | 6.5 | State of residence | 29,056 | 66.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,195 | 52.1 | Different state | 13,369 | 30.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,534 | 21.3 | Born outside United States | 737 | 1.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,695 | 14.3 | Foreign born | 509 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 110 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 312 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 27,589 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 197 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,588 | 5.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,284 | 15.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,332 | 33.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 509 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,024 | 21.8 | Europe | 199 | 39.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,389 | 5.0 | Asia | 159 | 31.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,245 | 11.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,727 | 6.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 129 | 25.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.7 | (X) | Northern America | 22 | 4.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 40,526 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 33,203 | 100.0 | English only | 39,379 | 97.2 | |
| Never married | 6,795 | 20.5 | Language other than English | 1,147 | 2.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 20,256 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 471 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 670 | 2.0 | Spanish | 463 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 2,201 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 279 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 1,871 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 475 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 3,281 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 141 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,901 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 160 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 51 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 43,671 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 845 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 35,668 | 81.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 449 | 53.1 | Arab | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 38 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 35 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 30,612 | 100.0 | Dutch | 447 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,226 | 17.1 | English | 4,325 | 9.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 831 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 205 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,488 | 8.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,881 | 100.0 | Greek | 43 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 889 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 24,537 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,691 | 8.5 | |
| With a disability | 5,506 | 22.4 | Italian | 629 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 54.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 19,031 | 77.6 | Norwegian | 75 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 77.4 | (X) | Polish | 373 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,360 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,186 | 50.1 | Russian | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,079 | 2.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 615 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 28 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 40,526 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 204 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 22,342 | 55.1 | Swedish | 241 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 17,838 | 44.0 | Swiss | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 7,927 | 19.6 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 9,911 | 24.5 | United States or American | 7,886 | 18.1 | |
| Same state | 5,398 | 13.3 | Welsh | 146 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 4,513 | 11.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 55 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 346 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 11,127 | 25.5 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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