
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greene 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 | 37,331 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,654 | 100.0 | Native | 37,128 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 623 | 7.2 | Born in United States | 37,007 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 473 | 5.5 | State of residence | 26,555 | 71.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,358 | 50.4 | Different state | 10,452 | 28.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,967 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 121 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,233 | 14.2 | Foreign born | 203 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 90 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 98 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 24,510 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 105 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,795 | 11.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,053 | 16.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,940 | 40.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 203 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,350 | 17.7 | Europe | 48 | 23.6 | |
| Associate degree | 702 | 2.9 | Asia | 26 | 12.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,822 | 7.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 848 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 123 | 60.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.1 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 3.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 34,826 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 29,516 | 100.0 | English only | 34,145 | 98.0 | |
| Never married | 4,838 | 16.4 | Language other than English | 681 | 2.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,278 | 61.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 238 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 639 | 2.2 | Spanish | 370 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 2,388 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 139 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 2,135 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 258 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 3,373 | 11.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 67 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,725 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 37,331 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 674 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 25,828 | 69.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 386 | 57.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 11 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 45 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 27,965 | 100.0 | Dutch | 636 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,732 | 13.3 | English | 2,690 | 7.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 547 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 99 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,064 | 8.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,292 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 867 | 10.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 21,136 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,724 | 10.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,532 | 26.2 | Italian | 269 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 51.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 10 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 15,604 | 73.8 | Norwegian | 138 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 79.2 | (X) | Polish | 130 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,944 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,606 | 52.7 | Russian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 472 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 220 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 11 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 34,826 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,377 | 52.8 | Swedish | 156 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,300 | 46.8 | Swiss | 44 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 9,899 | 28.4 | Ukrainian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,401 | 18.4 | United States or American | 8,023 | 21.5 | |
| Same state | 3,418 | 9.8 | Welsh | 106 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 2,983 | 8.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 149 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 5,379 | 14.4 | |
| 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)

