DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Catoosa 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 | 53,282 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 13,012 | 100.0 | Native | 52,385 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 958 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 52,172 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 862 | 6.6 | State of residence | 19,860 | 37.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,380 | 49.0 | Different state | 32,312 | 60.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,798 | 21.5 | Born outside United States | 213 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,014 | 15.5 | Foreign born | 897 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 327 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 301 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 35,231 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 596 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,667 | 7.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,778 | 16.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,267 | 34.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 897 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,729 | 21.9 | Europe | 220 | 24.5 | |
| Associate degree | 1,933 | 5.5 | Asia | 275 | 30.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,371 | 9.6 | Africa | 6 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,486 | 4.2 | Oceania | 11 | 1.2 | |
| Latin America | 286 | 31.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.0 | (X) | Northern America | 99 | 11.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 49,654 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 41,725 | 100.0 | English only | 47,926 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 7,525 | 18.0 | Language other than English | 1,728 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 26,074 | 62.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 676 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 488 | 1.2 | Spanish | 807 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,805 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 262 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,380 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 616 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 4,833 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 259 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,810 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 273 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 130 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 53,282 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,042 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 39,007 | 73.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 535 | 51.3 | Arab | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 29 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 93 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 39,492 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,196 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,218 | 13.2 | English | 4,531 | 8.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 652 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 138 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,985 | 7.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 11,929 | 100.0 | Greek | 76 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 955 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 55 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 31,281 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,931 | 11.1 | |
| With a disability | 6,195 | 19.8 | Italian | 746 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 62.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 25,086 | 80.2 | Norwegian | 59 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 81.0 | (X) | Polish | 228 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,091 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 29 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,979 | 48.9 | Russian | 110 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 865 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 933 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 12 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 49,654 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 26,961 | 54.3 | Swedish | 168 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 22,535 | 45.4 | Swiss | 35 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 9,005 | 18.1 | Ukrainian | 45 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 13,530 | 27.2 | United States or American | 11,747 | 22.0 | |
| Same state | 5,143 | 10.4 | Welsh | 172 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 8,387 | 16.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 21 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 158 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 7,097 | 13.3 | |
| 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)
