DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Emanuel 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 | 21,837 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,720 | 100.0 | Native | 20,946 | 95.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 317 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 20,866 | 95.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 378 | 6.6 | State of residence | 18,663 | 85.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,782 | 48.6 | Different state | 2,203 | 10.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,585 | 27.7 | Born outside United States | 80 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 658 | 11.5 | Foreign born | 891 | 4.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 778 | 3.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 164 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,465 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 727 | 3.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,022 | 15.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,169 | 23.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,735 | 35.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 891 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,775 | 13.2 | Europe | 114 | 12.8 | |
| Associate degree | 410 | 3.0 | Asia | 28 | 3.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 703 | 5.2 | Africa | 37 | 4.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 651 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 636 | 71.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 61.4 | (X) | Northern America | 76 | 8.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,410 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 17,011 | 100.0 | English only | 19,205 | 94.1 | |
| Never married | 4,703 | 27.6 | Language other than English | 1,205 | 5.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,818 | 51.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 644 | 3.2 | |
| Separated | 355 | 2.1 | Spanish | 953 | 4.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,517 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 605 | 3.0 | |
| Female | 1,306 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 147 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,618 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 822 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 29 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,837 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 543 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,328 | 79.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 317 | 58.4 | Arab | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,743 | 100.0 | Dutch | 74 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,505 | 9.6 | English | 1,057 | 4.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 92 | 0.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 320 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,516 | 100.0 | Greek | 40 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 547 | 9.9 | Hungarian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,530 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 929 | 4.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,792 | 24.2 | Italian | 68 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 43.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,738 | 75.8 | Norwegian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.7 | (X) | Polish | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,795 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,577 | 56.4 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 92 | 0.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 90 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,410 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 166 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,289 | 65.1 | Swedish | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,596 | 32.3 | Swiss | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 4,210 | 20.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,386 | 11.7 | United States or American | 6,249 | 28.6 | |
| Same state | 1,850 | 9.1 | Welsh | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 536 | 2.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 525 | 2.6 | Other ancestries | 8,011 | 36.7 | |
| 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
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