
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Putnam 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 | 70,423 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 16,240 | 100.0 | Native | 68,052 | 96.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 949 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 67,037 | 95.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 827 | 5.1 | State of residence | 37,436 | 53.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,631 | 53.1 | Different state | 29,601 | 42.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,849 | 23.7 | Born outside United States | 1,015 | 1.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,984 | 12.2 | Foreign born | 2,371 | 3.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 881 | 1.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 986 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 47,761 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,385 | 2.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,308 | 9.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,852 | 20.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 17,833 | 37.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,371 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,083 | 19.0 | Europe | 483 | 20.4 | |
| Associate degree | 2,178 | 4.6 | Asia | 291 | 12.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,750 | 5.8 | Africa | 33 | 1.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,757 | 3.7 | Oceania | 18 | 0.8 | |
| Latin America | 1,431 | 60.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.4 | (X) | Northern America | 115 | 4.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 66,043 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 56,057 | 100.0 | English only | 61,253 | 92.7 | |
| Never married | 11,743 | 20.9 | Language other than English | 4,790 | 7.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 31,512 | 56.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,245 | 3.4 | |
| Separated | 1,285 | 2.3 | Spanish | 3,752 | 5.7 | |
| Widowed | 4,748 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,851 | 2.8 | |
| Female | 3,764 | 6.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 889 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 6,769 | 12.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 359 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 3,537 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 111 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 70,423 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,480 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 59,250 | 84.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 885 | 59.8 | Arab | 76 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 90 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 91 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 53,049 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,021 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 10,076 | 19.0 | English | 7,204 | 10.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,718 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 483 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,293 | 8.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 15,372 | 100.0 | Greek | 85 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,804 | 11.7 | Hungarian | 229 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 36,873 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,320 | 9.0 | |
| With a disability | 11,839 | 32.1 | Italian | 1,717 | 2.4 | |
| Percent employed | 51.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 146 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 25,034 | 67.9 | Norwegian | 271 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 69.6 | (X) | Polish | 823 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 12,871 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 168 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 6,068 | 47.1 | Russian | 147 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,179 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,330 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 63 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 66,043 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 208 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 39,999 | 60.6 | Swedish | 478 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 25,229 | 38.2 | Swiss | 60 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 12,546 | 19.0 | Ukrainian | 57 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 12,683 | 19.2 | United States or American | 10,904 | 15.5 | |
| Same state | 7,721 | 11.7 | Welsh | 370 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 4,962 | 7.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 175 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 815 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 17,544 | 24.9 | |
| 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)

