DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jefferson 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 | 17,266 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,628 | 100.0 | Native | 17,175 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 351 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 17,098 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 304 | 6.6 | State of residence | 15,266 | 88.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,382 | 51.5 | Different state | 1,832 | 10.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,225 | 26.5 | Born outside United States | 77 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 366 | 7.9 | Foreign born | 91 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 26 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 31 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,799 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 60 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,805 | 16.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,672 | 24.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,668 | 34.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 91 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,280 | 11.9 | Europe | 32 | 35.2 | |
| Associate degree | 389 | 3.6 | Asia | 8 | 8.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 675 | 6.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 310 | 2.9 | Oceania | 10 | 11.0 | |
| Latin America | 39 | 42.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 58.5 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 2.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 16,080 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,226 | 100.0 | English only | 15,767 | 98.1 | |
| Never married | 4,139 | 31.3 | Language other than English | 313 | 1.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,092 | 46.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 144 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 484 | 3.7 | Spanish | 179 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,314 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 98 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,135 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 91 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,197 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 591 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 17,266 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 646 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 14,236 | 82.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 358 | 55.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,345 | 100.0 | Dutch | 155 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,283 | 10.4 | English | 782 | 4.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 102 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 291 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,536 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 444 | 9.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,963 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 590 | 3.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,699 | 30.1 | Italian | 123 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 39.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,264 | 69.9 | Norwegian | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 66.1 | (X) | Polish | 52 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,272 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,311 | 57.7 | Russian | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 190 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 87 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 16,080 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 275 | 1.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,553 | 65.6 | Swedish | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,350 | 33.3 | Swiss | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 3,600 | 22.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,750 | 10.9 | United States or American | 2,536 | 14.7 | |
| Same state | 1,230 | 7.6 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 520 | 3.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 177 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 8,907 | 51.6 | |
| 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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