DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pike 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 | 29,605 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,104 | 100.0 | Native | 29,030 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 459 | 5.0 | Born in United States | 28,765 | 97.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 323 | 3.5 | State of residence | 23,661 | 79.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,443 | 37.8 | Different state | 5,104 | 17.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,564 | 17.2 | Born outside United States | 265 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,315 | 36.4 | Foreign born | 575 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 402 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 129 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,703 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 446 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,095 | 11.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,377 | 19.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,312 | 30.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 575 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,084 | 17.4 | Europe | 132 | 23.0 | |
| Associate degree | 571 | 3.2 | Asia | 235 | 40.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,018 | 11.4 | Africa | 88 | 15.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,246 | 7.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 106 | 18.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.1 | (X) | Northern America | 14 | 2.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 27,629 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 23,582 | 100.0 | English only | 26,565 | 96.1 | |
| Never married | 7,447 | 31.6 | Language other than English | 1,064 | 3.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,248 | 47.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 505 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 636 | 2.7 | Spanish | 502 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 2,094 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 263 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 1,687 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 213 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 2,157 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,169 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 267 | 1.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 155 | 0.6 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 29,605 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 827 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,871 | 73.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 514 | 62.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 45 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 22,340 | 100.0 | Dutch | 92 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,487 | 11.1 | English | 1,783 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 251 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 18 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,139 | 3.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,281 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 642 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 16,462 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,302 | 4.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,012 | 24.4 | Italian | 244 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 50.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,450 | 75.6 | Norwegian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 72.5 | (X) | Polish | 59 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,696 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,011 | 54.4 | Russian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 525 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 388 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 12 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 27,629 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 327 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,739 | 57.0 | Swedish | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,452 | 41.4 | Swiss | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 6,654 | 24.1 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,798 | 17.4 | United States or American | 4,464 | 15.1 | |
| Same state | 3,076 | 11.1 | Welsh | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,722 | 6.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 438 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 11,040 | 37.3 | |
| 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)
