DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greene 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 | 14,406 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,385 | 100.0 | Native | 14,035 | 97.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 362 | 10.7 | Born in United States | 13,997 | 97.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 174 | 5.1 | State of residence | 11,150 | 77.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,659 | 49.0 | Different state | 2,847 | 19.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 860 | 25.4 | Born outside United States | 38 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 330 | 9.7 | Foreign born | 371 | 2.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 240 | 1.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 134 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,508 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 237 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 983 | 10.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,863 | 19.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,165 | 33.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 371 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,479 | 15.6 | Europe | 84 | 22.6 | |
| Associate degree | 342 | 3.6 | Asia | 50 | 13.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,043 | 11.0 | Africa | 15 | 4.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 633 | 6.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 201 | 54.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.1 | (X) | Northern America | 21 | 5.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,432 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,416 | 100.0 | English only | 12,945 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 3,186 | 27.9 | Language other than English | 487 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,718 | 50.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 246 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 403 | 3.5 | Spanish | 385 | 2.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,056 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 191 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 872 | 7.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 67 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,053 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 549 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,406 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 454 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,565 | 80.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 257 | 56.6 | Arab | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 22 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,802 | 100.0 | Dutch | 116 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,470 | 13.6 | English | 1,031 | 7.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 78 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 26 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 745 | 5.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,243 | 100.0 | Greek | 13 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 342 | 10.5 | Hungarian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,043 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 813 | 5.6 | |
| With a disability | 2,039 | 25.4 | Italian | 62 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 52.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 6,004 | 74.6 | Norwegian | 52 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 66.4 | (X) | Polish | 143 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,965 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 918 | 46.7 | Russian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 240 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 106 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,432 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 382 | 2.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,574 | 56.4 | Swedish | 66 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,725 | 42.6 | Swiss | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,809 | 20.9 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,916 | 21.7 | United States or American | 1,740 | 12.1 | |
| Same state | 1,984 | 14.8 | Welsh | 56 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 932 | 6.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 133 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 5,795 | 40.2 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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