DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: DeKalb 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 | 665,865 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 182,326 | 100.0 | Native | 564,545 | 84.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 14,993 | 8.2 | Born in United States | 556,093 | 83.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 10,093 | 5.5 | State of residence | 284,918 | 42.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 74,129 | 40.7 | Different state | 271,175 | 40.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 35,502 | 19.5 | Born outside United States | 8,452 | 1.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 47,609 | 26.1 | Foreign born | 101,320 | 15.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 65,627 | 9.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 26,531 | 4.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 429,981 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 74,789 | 11.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 24,282 | 5.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 39,978 | 9.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 87,359 | 20.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 101,320 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 96,268 | 22.4 | Europe | 10,216 | 10.1 | |
| Associate degree | 26,005 | 6.0 | Asia | 24,516 | 24.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 97,769 | 22.7 | Africa | 14,117 | 13.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 58,320 | 13.6 | Oceania | 210 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 50,955 | 50.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.1 | (X) | Northern America | 1,306 | 1.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 36.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 619,018 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 527,709 | 100.0 | English only | 511,239 | 82.6 | |
| Never married | 197,879 | 37.5 | Language other than English | 107,779 | 17.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 232,662 | 44.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 61,818 | 10.0 | |
| Separated | 13,977 | 2.6 | Spanish | 52,481 | 8.5 | |
| Widowed | 26,000 | 4.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 35,694 | 5.8 | |
| Female | 22,051 | 4.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 24,476 | 4.0 | |
| Divorced | 57,191 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,469 | 1.5 | |
| Female | 36,082 | 6.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 17,381 | 2.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11,235 | 1.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 665,865 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 17,186 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 627,950 | 94.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 7,617 | 44.3 | Arab | 2,355 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,155 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,024 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 502,037 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,498 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 52,982 | 10.6 | English | 40,234 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 8,816 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,689 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 34,725 | 5.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 144,311 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,430 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 11,774 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 1,356 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 416,245 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 31,618 | 4.7 | |
| With a disability | 72,859 | 17.5 | Italian | 9,565 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 63.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 848 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 343,386 | 82.5 | Norwegian | 2,192 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 79.5 | (X) | Polish | 7,006 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 51,611 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 534 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 21,211 | 41.1 | Russian | 5,271 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 10,472 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 9,966 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 515 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 619,018 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 22,438 | 3.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 270,873 | 43.8 | Swedish | 3,320 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 306,440 | 49.5 | Swiss | 1,323 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 133,397 | 21.5 | Ukrainian | 882 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 173,043 | 28.0 | United States or American | 25,977 | 3.9 | |
| Same state | 74,644 | 12.1 | Welsh | 2,565 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 98,399 | 15.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 15,194 | 2.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 41,705 | 6.7 | Other ancestries | 381,982 | 57.4 | |
| 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)
