DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Irwin 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 | 9,931 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,682 | 100.0 | Native | 9,806 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 148 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 9,757 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 109 | 4.1 | State of residence | 8,245 | 83.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,301 | 48.5 | Different state | 1,512 | 15.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 856 | 31.9 | Born outside United States | 49 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 268 | 10.0 | Foreign born | 125 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 113 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 19 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,196 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 106 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 783 | 12.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,218 | 19.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,384 | 38.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 125 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 890 | 14.4 | Europe | 4 | 3.2 | |
| Associate degree | 310 | 5.0 | Asia | 28 | 22.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 423 | 6.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 188 | 3.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 93 | 74.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,257 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,730 | 100.0 | English only | 9,007 | 97.3 | |
| Never married | 1,792 | 23.2 | Language other than English | 250 | 2.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,321 | 55.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 99 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 204 | 2.6 | Spanish | 229 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 680 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 95 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 593 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Divorced | 733 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 390 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 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 | 9,931 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 221 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,392 | 74.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 158 | 71.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,051 | 100.0 | Dutch | 66 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 774 | 11.0 | English | 479 | 4.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 31 | 0.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 325 | 3.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,396 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 202 | 8.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,164 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 639 | 6.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,009 | 19.5 | Italian | 48 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 53.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,155 | 80.5 | Norwegian | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 75.8 | (X) | Polish | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,335 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 716 | 53.6 | Russian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 133 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 43 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,257 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 34 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,079 | 65.7 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,093 | 33.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,597 | 17.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,496 | 16.2 | United States or American | 3,048 | 30.7 | |
| Same state | 1,208 | 13.0 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 288 | 3.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 85 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 2,486 | 25.0 | |
| 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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