DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Floyd 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 | 90,565 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 23,133 | 100.0 | Native | 85,843 | 94.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,787 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 85,249 | 94.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,105 | 4.8 | State of residence | 64,318 | 71.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,624 | 45.9 | Different state | 20,931 | 23.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,646 | 20.1 | Born outside United States | 594 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,971 | 21.5 | Foreign born | 4,722 | 5.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,912 | 3.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,349 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 58,651 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3,373 | 3.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,739 | 11.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,997 | 17.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 19,489 | 33.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4,722 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 10,818 | 18.4 | Europe | 311 | 6.6 | |
| Associate degree | 2,341 | 4.0 | Asia | 1,113 | 23.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,849 | 10.0 | Africa | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,418 | 5.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 3,203 | 67.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.5 | (X) | Northern America | 81 | 1.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 84,524 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 71,839 | 100.0 | English only | 77,950 | 92.2 | |
| Never married | 16,167 | 22.5 | Language other than English | 6,574 | 7.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 40,928 | 57.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,864 | 4.6 | |
| Separated | 1,155 | 1.6 | Spanish | 4,611 | 5.5 | |
| Widowed | 5,850 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,016 | 3.6 | |
| Female | 4,947 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,020 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 7,739 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 375 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 4,424 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 579 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 359 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 90,565 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,131 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 67,052 | 74.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,051 | 49.3 | Arab | 320 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 48 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 28 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 68,384 | 100.0 | Dutch | 774 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,637 | 12.6 | English | 7,189 | 7.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 803 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 155 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,268 | 4.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 20,680 | 100.0 | Greek | 121 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,002 | 9.7 | Hungarian | 58 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 50,020 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,061 | 7.8 | |
| With a disability | 12,342 | 24.7 | Italian | 854 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 54.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 37,678 | 75.3 | Norwegian | 220 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 77.2 | (X) | Polish | 376 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 11,873 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 15 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,926 | 49.9 | Russian | 59 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,647 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,351 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 12 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 84,524 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 509 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 45,464 | 53.8 | Swedish | 223 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 37,609 | 44.5 | Swiss | 45 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 23,562 | 27.9 | Ukrainian | 23 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 14,047 | 16.6 | United States or American | 18,704 | 20.7 | |
| Same state | 7,472 | 8.8 | Welsh | 220 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 6,575 | 7.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,451 | 1.7 | Other ancestries | 21,950 | 24.2 | |
| 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)
