DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Coweta 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 | 89,215 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 23,339 | 100.0 | Native | 85,958 | 96.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,192 | 9.4 | Born in United States | 85,048 | 95.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,545 | 6.6 | State of residence | 57,343 | 64.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 11,676 | 50.0 | Different state | 27,705 | 31.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,191 | 22.2 | Born outside United States | 910 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,735 | 11.7 | Foreign born | 3,257 | 3.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,954 | 2.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 982 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 56,821 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,275 | 2.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,519 | 6.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,923 | 12.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 18,664 | 32.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3,257 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 12,964 | 22.8 | Europe | 684 | 21.0 | |
| Associate degree | 3,042 | 5.4 | Asia | 469 | 14.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 8,123 | 14.3 | Africa | 92 | 2.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,586 | 6.3 | Oceania | 23 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 1,868 | 57.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.6 | (X) | Northern America | 121 | 3.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 82,117 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 67,464 | 100.0 | English only | 77,496 | 94.4 | |
| Never married | 14,844 | 22.0 | Language other than English | 4,621 | 5.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 41,458 | 61.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,236 | 2.7 | |
| Separated | 1,061 | 1.6 | Spanish | 3,011 | 3.7 | |
| Widowed | 3,768 | 5.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,748 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 3,190 | 4.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,177 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 6,333 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 347 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 3,561 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 318 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 105 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 89,215 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,087 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 75,752 | 84.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 790 | 37.9 | Arab | 263 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 186 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 144 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 63,526 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,062 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 9,127 | 14.4 | English | 8,394 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,606 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 343 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,760 | 8.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 21,391 | 100.0 | Greek | 208 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,546 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 131 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 52,764 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 8,399 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 8,614 | 16.3 | Italian | 1,851 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 61.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 105 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 44,150 | 83.7 | Norwegian | 604 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 80.0 | (X) | Polish | 972 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,084 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 96 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,280 | 46.3 | Russian | 128 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,793 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,717 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 79 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 82,117 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 624 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 39,135 | 47.7 | Swedish | 502 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 41,219 | 50.2 | Swiss | 197 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 16,445 | 20.0 | Ukrainian | 109 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 24,774 | 30.2 | United States or American | 15,517 | 17.4 | |
| Same state | 15,565 | 19.0 | Welsh | 312 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 9,209 | 11.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 160 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,763 | 2.1 | Other ancestries | 22,490 | 25.2 | |
| 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)
