DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Camden 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 | 43,664 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 13,254 | 100.0 | Native | 42,649 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 984 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 41,970 | 96.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 792 | 6.0 | State of residence | 13,641 | 31.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,538 | 49.3 | Different state | 28,329 | 64.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,819 | 21.3 | Born outside United States | 679 | 1.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,121 | 16.0 | Foreign born | 1,015 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 315 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 475 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 24,073 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 540 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,050 | 4.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,979 | 12.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,990 | 33.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,015 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,424 | 26.7 | Europe | 314 | 30.9 | |
| Associate degree | 1,784 | 7.4 | Asia | 367 | 36.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,476 | 10.3 | Africa | 20 | 2.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,370 | 5.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 216 | 21.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.3 | (X) | Northern America | 98 | 9.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 39,882 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 31,946 | 100.0 | English only | 37,405 | 93.8 | |
| Never married | 7,705 | 24.1 | Language other than English | 2,477 | 6.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 19,434 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 706 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 748 | 2.3 | Spanish | 1,444 | 3.6 | |
| Widowed | 1,165 | 3.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 408 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 919 | 2.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 542 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 2,894 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 157 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,621 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 425 | 1.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 91 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 43,664 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 668 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 43,418 | 99.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 359 | 53.7 | Arab | 72 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 143 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 110 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,644 | 100.0 | Dutch | 479 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,236 | 21.2 | English | 3,686 | 8.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,219 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 582 | 1.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,092 | 11.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 11,691 | 100.0 | Greek | 86 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,028 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 110 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 20,713 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,068 | 11.6 | |
| With a disability | 4,237 | 20.5 | Italian | 1,884 | 4.3 | |
| Percent employed | 61.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 72 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 16,476 | 79.5 | Norwegian | 430 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 73.8 | (X) | Polish | 876 | 2.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,100 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 92 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 991 | 47.2 | Russian | 191 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 806 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,347 | 3.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 39,882 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 325 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,877 | 39.8 | Swedish | 392 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 23,240 | 58.3 | Swiss | 48 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 7,323 | 18.4 | Ukrainian | 120 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 15,917 | 39.9 | United States or American | 4,861 | 11.1 | |
| Same state | 2,208 | 5.5 | Welsh | 312 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 13,709 | 34.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 237 | 0.5 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 765 | 1.9 | Other ancestries | 14,770 | 33.8 | |
| 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)
