DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Habersham 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 | 35,902 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,166 | 100.0 | Native | 33,089 | 92.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 526 | 6.4 | Born in United States | 32,936 | 91.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 431 | 5.3 | State of residence | 24,727 | 68.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,819 | 46.8 | Different state | 8,209 | 22.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,884 | 23.1 | Born outside United States | 153 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,506 | 18.4 | Foreign born | 2,813 | 7.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,806 | 5.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 632 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 23,501 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,181 | 6.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,113 | 13.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,733 | 15.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,931 | 33.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,813 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,143 | 17.6 | Europe | 194 | 6.9 | |
| Associate degree | 863 | 3.7 | Asia | 617 | 21.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,293 | 9.8 | Africa | 23 | 0.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,425 | 6.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,955 | 69.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.9 | (X) | Northern America | 24 | 0.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 33,709 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 29,052 | 100.0 | English only | 29,775 | 88.3 | |
| Never married | 5,387 | 18.5 | Language other than English | 3,934 | 11.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,578 | 63.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,313 | 6.9 | |
| Separated | 355 | 1.2 | Spanish | 2,649 | 7.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,948 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,837 | 5.4 | |
| Female | 1,629 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 539 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 2,784 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 90 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,473 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 690 | 2.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 362 | 1.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 35,902 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 733 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 27,029 | 75.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 300 | 40.9 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 30 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 12 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 27,501 | 100.0 | Dutch | 499 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,588 | 13.0 | English | 3,364 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 449 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 119 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,306 | 6.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,542 | 100.0 | Greek | 31 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 654 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 19,904 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,347 | 9.3 | |
| With a disability | 4,603 | 23.1 | Italian | 402 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 61.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 15,301 | 76.9 | Norwegian | 87 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 78.7 | (X) | Polish | 190 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,854 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,291 | 47.2 | Russian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 706 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 560 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 24 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 33,709 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 67 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,684 | 55.4 | Swedish | 103 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 13,990 | 41.5 | Swiss | 49 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 6,709 | 19.9 | Ukrainian | 17 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 7,281 | 21.6 | United States or American | 7,548 | 21.0 | |
| Same state | 5,186 | 15.4 | Welsh | 155 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 2,095 | 6.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,035 | 3.1 | Other ancestries | 6,892 | 19.2 | |
| 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)
