DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cobb 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 | 607,751 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 165,032 | 100.0 | Native | 537,312 | 88.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 14,414 | 8.7 | Born in United States | 529,391 | 87.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 9,458 | 5.7 | State of residence | 227,454 | 37.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 71,629 | 43.4 | Different state | 301,937 | 49.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 33,818 | 20.5 | Born outside United States | 7,921 | 1.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 35,713 | 21.6 | Foreign born | 70,439 | 11.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 41,713 | 6.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 20,701 | 3.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 395,349 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 49,738 | 8.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 15,282 | 3.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 29,032 | 7.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 82,038 | 20.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 70,439 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 88,678 | 22.4 | Europe | 8,898 | 12.6 | |
| Associate degree | 23,141 | 5.9 | Asia | 17,025 | 24.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 110,788 | 28.0 | Africa | 6,047 | 8.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 46,390 | 11.7 | Oceania | 200 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 35,712 | 50.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.8 | (X) | Northern America | 2,557 | 3.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 39.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 564,574 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 475,216 | 100.0 | English only | 481,572 | 85.3 | |
| Never married | 131,429 | 27.7 | Language other than English | 83,002 | 14.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 269,202 | 56.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39,521 | 7.0 | |
| Separated | 7,886 | 1.7 | Spanish | 44,531 | 7.9 | |
| Widowed | 18,518 | 3.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25,833 | 4.6 | |
| Female | 15,559 | 3.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 20,749 | 3.7 | |
| Divorced | 48,181 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,510 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 28,694 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11,863 | 2.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,790 | 1.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 607,751 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 9,607 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 595,407 | 98.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,489 | 36.3 | Arab | 2,508 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,154 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,504 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 448,839 | 100.0 | Dutch | 6,968 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 56,014 | 12.5 | English | 67,340 | 11.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 14,270 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,139 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 66,310 | 10.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 135,385 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,277 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 10,083 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 2,236 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 383,236 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 64,428 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 56,112 | 14.6 | Italian | 23,328 | 3.8 | |
| Percent employed | 69.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 857 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 327,124 | 85.4 | Norwegian | 4,242 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 81.0 | (X) | Polish | 12,333 | 2.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 40,727 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,059 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 16,791 | 41.2 | Russian | 5,363 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 13,616 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 14,818 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 888 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 564,574 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 9,529 | 1.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 247,545 | 43.8 | Swedish | 4,959 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 290,771 | 51.5 | Swiss | 1,213 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 116,291 | 20.6 | Ukrainian | 1,172 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 174,480 | 30.9 | United States or American | 59,127 | 9.7 | |
| Same state | 65,316 | 11.6 | Welsh | 4,059 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 109,164 | 19.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6,561 | 1.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 26,258 | 4.7 | Other ancestries | 199,149 | 32.8 | |
| 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)
