DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hall 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 | 139,277 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 33,309 | 100.0 | Native | 116,775 | 83.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,483 | 7.5 | Born in United States | 115,901 | 83.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,206 | 6.6 | State of residence | 82,107 | 59.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 16,614 | 49.9 | Different state | 33,794 | 24.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 7,338 | 22.0 | Born outside United States | 874 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,668 | 14.0 | Foreign born | 22,502 | 16.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 15,943 | 11.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 3,356 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 86,821 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 19,146 | 13.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 12,081 | 13.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 13,523 | 15.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 25,680 | 29.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 22,502 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 15,558 | 17.9 | Europe | 640 | 2.8 | |
| Associate degree | 3,718 | 4.3 | Asia | 1,724 | 7.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 10,368 | 11.9 | Africa | 263 | 1.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 5,893 | 6.8 | Oceania | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 19,658 | 87.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.5 | (X) | Northern America | 205 | 0.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 128,040 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 107,606 | 100.0 | English only | 101,506 | 79.3 | |
| Never married | 24,662 | 22.9 | Language other than English | 26,534 | 20.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 65,204 | 60.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17,598 | 13.7 | |
| Separated | 1,654 | 1.5 | Spanish | 23,489 | 18.3 | |
| Widowed | 5,959 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16,209 | 12.7 | |
| Female | 4,979 | 4.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,334 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 10,127 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 302 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 5,565 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,589 | 1.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,061 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 139,277 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,058 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 114,319 | 82.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,379 | 45.1 | Arab | 123 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 140 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 142 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 101,804 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,332 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 11,571 | 11.4 | English | 11,684 | 8.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,855 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 702 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,098 | 6.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 32,220 | 100.0 | Greek | 203 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,905 | 9.0 | Hungarian | 189 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 81,552 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 11,679 | 8.4 | |
| With a disability | 18,217 | 22.3 | Italian | 2,477 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 62.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 57 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 63,335 | 77.7 | Norwegian | 451 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 76.2 | (X) | Polish | 872 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 12,705 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 53 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,974 | 47.0 | Russian | 114 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,173 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,315 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 52 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 128,040 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 424 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 61,142 | 47.8 | Swedish | 594 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 58,542 | 45.7 | Swiss | 141 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 31,655 | 24.7 | Ukrainian | 61 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 26,887 | 21.0 | United States or American | 24,142 | 17.3 | |
| Same state | 15,586 | 12.2 | Welsh | 386 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 11,301 | 8.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 25 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 8,356 | 6.5 | Other ancestries | 42,835 | 30.8 | |
| 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)
