
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Bradley 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 | 12,600 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,852 | 100.0 | Native | 12,056 | 95.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 124 | 4.3 | Born in United States | 12,015 | 95.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 196 | 6.9 | State of residence | 9,618 | 76.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,427 | 50.0 | Different state | 2,397 | 19.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 760 | 26.6 | Born outside United States | 41 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 345 | 12.1 | Foreign born | 544 | 4.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 309 | 2.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 141 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,368 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 403 | 3.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,147 | 13.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,647 | 19.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,082 | 36.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 544 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,300 | 15.5 | Europe | 52 | 9.6 | |
| Associate degree | 194 | 2.3 | Asia | 15 | 2.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 646 | 7.7 | Africa | 40 | 7.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 352 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 434 | 79.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.6 | (X) | Northern America | 3 | 0.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,855 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,165 | 100.0 | English only | 10,962 | 92.5 | |
| Never married | 2,208 | 21.7 | Language other than English | 893 | 7.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,811 | 57.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 484 | 4.1 | |
| Separated | 185 | 1.8 | Spanish | 794 | 6.7 | |
| Widowed | 989 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 476 | 4.0 | |
| Female | 833 | 8.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 80 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 972 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 405 | 4.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 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 | 12,600 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 382 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,260 | 73.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 247 | 64.7 | Arab | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,615 | 100.0 | Dutch | 140 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,205 | 12.5 | English | 612 | 4.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 204 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 294 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,721 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 204 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,776 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 682 | 5.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,812 | 26.7 | Italian | 53 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 42.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,964 | 73.3 | Norwegian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 67.6 | (X) | Polish | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,009 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,164 | 57.9 | Russian | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 186 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 118 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,855 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 80 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,441 | 62.8 | Swedish | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,276 | 36.1 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,270 | 19.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,006 | 16.9 | United States or American | 2,517 | 20.0 | |
| Same state | 959 | 8.1 | Welsh | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,047 | 8.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 138 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 4,284 | 34.0 | |
| 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)

