DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Laurens 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 | 44,874 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,544 | 100.0 | Native | 44,368 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 787 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 44,243 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 708 | 6.1 | State of residence | 37,388 | 83.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,577 | 48.3 | Different state | 6,855 | 15.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,955 | 25.6 | Born outside United States | 125 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,517 | 13.1 | Foreign born | 506 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 293 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 189 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 28,875 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 317 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,052 | 10.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,512 | 19.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,718 | 37.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 506 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,301 | 14.9 | Europe | 78 | 15.4 | |
| Associate degree | 1,120 | 3.9 | Asia | 184 | 36.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,573 | 8.9 | Africa | 52 | 10.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,599 | 5.5 | Oceania | 9 | 1.8 | |
| Latin America | 152 | 30.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.3 | (X) | Northern America | 31 | 6.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 41,716 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 34,968 | 100.0 | English only | 40,561 | 97.2 | |
| Never married | 8,385 | 24.0 | Language other than English | 1,155 | 2.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,528 | 53.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 403 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 1,196 | 3.4 | Spanish | 714 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 2,881 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 226 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,415 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 304 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 3,978 | 11.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 114 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,234 | 6.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 123 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 63 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 44,874 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,082 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 34,576 | 77.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 608 | 56.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 45 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 20 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 32,782 | 100.0 | Dutch | 272 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,321 | 13.2 | English | 3,160 | 7.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 384 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 27 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,280 | 2.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,681 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 930 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 24,380 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,580 | 5.7 | |
| With a disability | 5,505 | 22.6 | Italian | 365 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 49.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 15 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 18,875 | 77.4 | Norwegian | 50 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 77.7 | (X) | Polish | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,448 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,834 | 52.0 | Russian | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 518 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 475 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 41,716 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 354 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 24,586 | 58.9 | Swedish | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,698 | 40.0 | Swiss | 79 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 10,890 | 26.1 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,808 | 13.9 | United States or American | 7,678 | 17.1 | |
| Same state | 3,574 | 8.6 | Welsh | 58 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 2,234 | 5.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 40 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 432 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 16,997 | 37.9 | |
| 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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