DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Carroll 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 | 87,268 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 24,665 | 100.0 | Native | 84,697 | 97.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,847 | 7.5 | Born in United States | 84,039 | 96.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,440 | 5.8 | State of residence | 62,684 | 71.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,288 | 41.7 | Different state | 21,355 | 24.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,655 | 18.9 | Born outside United States | 658 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 6,435 | 26.1 | Foreign born | 2,571 | 2.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,669 | 1.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 687 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 53,464 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,884 | 2.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,387 | 10.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,087 | 18.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 18,292 | 34.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,571 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 8,973 | 16.8 | Europe | 411 | 16.0 | |
| Associate degree | 1,897 | 3.5 | Asia | 412 | 16.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,234 | 9.8 | Africa | 56 | 2.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,594 | 6.7 | Oceania | 13 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 1,592 | 61.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.1 | (X) | Northern America | 87 | 3.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 81,071 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 68,347 | 100.0 | English only | 77,147 | 95.2 | |
| Never married | 17,443 | 25.5 | Language other than English | 3,924 | 4.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 38,176 | 55.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,026 | 2.5 | |
| Separated | 1,388 | 2.0 | Spanish | 2,599 | 3.2 | |
| Widowed | 4,392 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,573 | 1.9 | |
| Female | 3,733 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 880 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 6,948 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 291 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 3,888 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 363 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 129 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 87,268 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,096 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 70,212 | 80.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,030 | 49.1 | Arab | 45 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 61 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 73 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 64,618 | 100.0 | Dutch | 894 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 7,483 | 11.6 | English | 6,940 | 8.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 864 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 253 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,103 | 5.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 21,758 | 100.0 | Greek | 58 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,883 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 54 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 50,046 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 8,532 | 9.8 | |
| With a disability | 10,812 | 21.6 | Italian | 1,175 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 53.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 34 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 39,234 | 78.4 | Norwegian | 376 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 77.2 | (X) | Polish | 373 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,269 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 38 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,781 | 45.7 | Russian | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,486 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,444 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 32 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 81,071 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 487 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 40,508 | 50.0 | Swedish | 249 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 39,461 | 48.7 | Swiss | 32 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 20,383 | 25.1 | Ukrainian | 22 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 19,078 | 23.5 | United States or American | 19,284 | 22.1 | |
| Same state | 12,935 | 16.0 | Welsh | 308 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 6,143 | 7.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 176 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,102 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 21,803 | 25.0 | |
| 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)
