DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Baldwin 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 | 140,415 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 32,637 | 100.0 | Native | 137,458 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,124 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 136,346 | 97.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,932 | 5.9 | State of residence | 81,709 | 58.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 16,275 | 49.9 | Different state | 54,637 | 38.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 7,598 | 23.3 | Born outside United States | 1,112 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,708 | 14.4 | Foreign born | 2,957 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,559 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,143 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 96,010 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,814 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,197 | 4.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 13,061 | 13.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 28,428 | 29.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,957 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 22,456 | 23.4 | Europe | 1,049 | 35.5 | |
| Associate degree | 5,722 | 6.0 | Asia | 456 | 15.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 14,225 | 14.8 | Africa | 40 | 1.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 7,921 | 8.3 | Oceania | 45 | 1.5 | |
| Latin America | 1,011 | 34.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.0 | (X) | Northern America | 356 | 12.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 131,862 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 112,144 | 100.0 | English only | 126,636 | 96.0 | |
| Never married | 20,626 | 18.4 | Language other than English | 5,226 | 4.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 69,752 | 62.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,724 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 1,653 | 1.5 | Spanish | 2,989 | 2.3 | |
| Widowed | 7,741 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,114 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 6,312 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,816 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 12,372 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 392 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 6,705 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 339 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 186 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 140,415 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,360 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 124,847 | 88.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,291 | 54.7 | Arab | 156 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,236 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 476 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 105,898 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,031 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 18,823 | 17.8 | English | 16,433 | 11.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,332 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 687 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 15,713 | 11.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 30,495 | 100.0 | Greek | 410 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,512 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 238 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 78,496 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 14,863 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 17,372 | 22.1 | Italian | 3,789 | 2.7 | |
| Percent employed | 58.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 121 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 61,124 | 77.9 | Norwegian | 1,085 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 75.5 | (X) | Polish | 1,569 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 21,012 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 125 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 8,809 | 41.9 | Russian | 320 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,984 | 3.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,192 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 90 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 131,862 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 846 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 70,099 | 53.2 | Swedish | 1,480 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 60,109 | 45.6 | Swiss | 227 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 28,868 | 21.9 | Ukrainian | 100 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 31,241 | 23.7 | United States or American | 21,464 | 15.3 | |
| Same state | 12,467 | 9.5 | Welsh | 723 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 18,774 | 14.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 32 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,654 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 28,125 | 20.0 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
