DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Etowah 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 | 103,459 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 23,661 | 100.0 | Native | 101,772 | 98.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,663 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 101,293 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,613 | 6.8 | State of residence | 84,916 | 82.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,747 | 45.4 | Different state | 16,377 | 15.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,508 | 23.3 | Born outside United States | 479 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,130 | 17.5 | Foreign born | 1,687 | 1.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 980 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 446 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 69,829 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,241 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,023 | 8.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 12,092 | 17.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 22,531 | 32.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,687 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 15,137 | 21.7 | Europe | 245 | 14.5 | |
| Associate degree | 4,674 | 6.7 | Asia | 385 | 22.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,679 | 8.1 | Africa | 26 | 1.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,693 | 5.3 | Oceania | 31 | 1.8 | |
| Latin America | 954 | 56.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.1 | (X) | Northern America | 46 | 2.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 96,773 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 83,242 | 100.0 | English only | 93,845 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 16,884 | 20.3 | Language other than English | 2,928 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 47,856 | 57.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,231 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 1,729 | 2.1 | Spanish | 2,072 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 7,524 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 968 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 6,384 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 560 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 9,249 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 127 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 5,278 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 198 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 103,459 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,124 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 77,294 | 74.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,079 | 50.8 | Arab | 64 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 60 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 81 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 78,728 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,313 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 11,128 | 14.1 | English | 8,231 | 8.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 851 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 115 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,822 | 4.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 21,866 | 100.0 | Greek | 77 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,921 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 74 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 57,584 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 8,707 | 8.4 | |
| With a disability | 14,751 | 25.6 | Italian | 895 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 48.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 42,833 | 74.4 | Norwegian | 176 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 73.5 | (X) | Polish | 286 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 15,805 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 20 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 7,733 | 48.9 | Russian | 87 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,690 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,358 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 24 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 96,773 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 576 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 59,632 | 61.6 | Swedish | 239 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 36,368 | 37.6 | Swiss | 49 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 24,119 | 24.9 | Ukrainian | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 12,249 | 12.7 | United States or American | 25,737 | 24.9 | |
| Same state | 7,297 | 7.5 | Welsh | 259 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 4,952 | 5.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 39 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 773 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 21,437 | 20.7 | |
| 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)
