DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Coffee 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 | 37,413 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,786 | 100.0 | Native | 35,383 | 94.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 826 | 8.4 | Born in United States | 35,141 | 93.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 616 | 6.3 | State of residence | 27,679 | 74.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,997 | 51.1 | Different state | 7,462 | 19.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,048 | 20.9 | Born outside United States | 242 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,299 | 13.3 | Foreign born | 2,030 | 5.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,251 | 3.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 524 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,798 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,506 | 4.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,792 | 12.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,227 | 22.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,513 | 33.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,030 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,894 | 17.1 | Europe | 63 | 3.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,085 | 4.8 | Asia | 173 | 8.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,495 | 6.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 792 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,760 | 86.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.8 | (X) | Northern America | 34 | 1.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 34,522 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 28,548 | 100.0 | English only | 31,842 | 92.2 | |
| Never married | 6,413 | 22.5 | Language other than English | 2,680 | 7.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 16,585 | 58.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,510 | 4.4 | |
| Separated | 842 | 2.9 | Spanish | 2,232 | 6.5 | |
| Widowed | 2,015 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,406 | 4.1 | |
| Female | 1,698 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 307 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 2,693 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 65 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,523 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 104 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 37,413 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,002 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 26,554 | 71.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 545 | 54.4 | Arab | 80 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 26,888 | 100.0 | Dutch | 216 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,771 | 10.3 | English | 1,715 | 4.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 243 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 859 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,474 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 827 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 20,401 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,949 | 5.2 | |
| With a disability | 4,947 | 24.2 | Italian | 329 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 47.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 15,454 | 75.8 | Norwegian | 44 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.1 | (X) | Polish | 99 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,409 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,906 | 55.9 | Russian | 18 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 313 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 317 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 34,522 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 178 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,858 | 54.6 | Swedish | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,968 | 43.4 | Swiss | 45 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 8,823 | 25.6 | Ukrainian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 6,145 | 17.8 | United States or American | 7,753 | 20.7 | |
| Same state | 3,467 | 10.0 | Welsh | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 2,678 | 7.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 74 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 696 | 2.0 | Other ancestries | 12,241 | 32.7 | |
| 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)
