
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greenlee 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 | 8,547 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,476 | 100.0 | Native | 8,260 | 96.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 184 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 8,214 | 96.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 173 | 7.0 | State of residence | 5,287 | 61.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,253 | 50.6 | Different state | 2,927 | 34.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 644 | 26.0 | Born outside United States | 46 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 222 | 9.0 | Foreign born | 287 | 3.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 110 | 1.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 140 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,207 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 147 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 330 | 6.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 582 | 11.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,828 | 35.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 287 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,450 | 27.8 | Europe | 33 | 11.5 | |
| Associate degree | 382 | 7.3 | Asia | 4 | 1.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 372 | 7.1 | Africa | 10 | 3.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 263 | 5.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 222 | 77.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.5 | (X) | Northern America | 18 | 6.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,855 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,309 | 100.0 | English only | 5,814 | 74.0 | |
| Never married | 1,201 | 19.0 | Language other than English | 2,041 | 26.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,966 | 62.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 475 | 6.0 | |
| Separated | 91 | 1.4 | Spanish | 1,970 | 25.1 | |
| Widowed | 370 | 5.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 463 | 5.9 | |
| Female | 263 | 4.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 27 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 681 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 303 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,547 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 257 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,423 | 98.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 145 | 56.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 42 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 90 | 1.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,826 | 100.0 | Dutch | 124 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 956 | 16.4 | English | 772 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 216 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 34 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 760 | 8.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,305 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 157 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,682 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 718 | 8.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,044 | 22.3 | Italian | 147 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 64.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,638 | 77.7 | Norwegian | 80 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 71.2 | (X) | Polish | 63 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 841 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 440 | 52.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 93 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 131 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,855 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,487 | 57.1 | Swedish | 99 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,301 | 42.0 | Swiss | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,643 | 20.9 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,658 | 21.1 | United States or American | 532 | 6.2 | |
| Same state | 857 | 10.9 | Welsh | 53 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 801 | 10.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 67 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 4,417 | 51.7 | |
| 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
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