
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Morgan 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 | 27,171 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,075 | 100.0 | Native | 23,195 | 85.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 519 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 23,054 | 84.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 489 | 6.9 | State of residence | 14,722 | 54.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,610 | 51.0 | Different state | 8,332 | 30.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,661 | 23.5 | Born outside United States | 141 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 796 | 11.3 | Foreign born | 3,976 | 14.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,226 | 8.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 643 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,661 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3,333 | 12.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,565 | 15.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,195 | 13.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,164 | 31.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3,976 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,415 | 20.5 | Europe | 80 | 2.0 | |
| Associate degree | 1,079 | 6.5 | Asia | 56 | 1.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,495 | 9.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 748 | 4.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 3,821 | 96.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.4 | (X) | Northern America | 19 | 0.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 24,856 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,237 | 100.0 | English only | 18,484 | 74.4 | |
| Never married | 4,104 | 20.3 | Language other than English | 6,372 | 25.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,509 | 61.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,594 | 14.5 | |
| Separated | 319 | 1.6 | Spanish | 5,998 | 24.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,301 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,488 | 14.0 | |
| Female | 1,025 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 310 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 2,004 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 84 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,078 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 29 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 27,171 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 602 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 27,316 | 100.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 307 | 51.0 | Arab | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 118 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 288 | 1.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,918 | 100.0 | Dutch | 435 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,260 | 11.9 | English | 2,645 | 9.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 607 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 89 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,928 | 25.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,939 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 400 | 5.8 | Hungarian | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,238 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,448 | 9.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,616 | 18.4 | Italian | 409 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 61.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 11,622 | 81.6 | Norwegian | 398 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 76.1 | (X) | Polish | 235 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,221 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 19 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,198 | 37.2 | Russian | 234 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 437 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 359 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 24,856 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,439 | 50.0 | Swedish | 608 | 2.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,568 | 46.5 | Swiss | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 6,672 | 26.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,896 | 19.7 | United States or American | 1,795 | 6.6 | |
| Same state | 2,407 | 9.7 | Welsh | 109 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 2,489 | 10.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 849 | 3.4 | Other ancestries | 9,048 | 33.3 | |
| 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)

