DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Monroe 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 | 21,757 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,835 | 100.0 | Native | 21,537 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 413 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 21,457 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 343 | 5.9 | State of residence | 17,557 | 80.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,713 | 46.5 | Different state | 3,900 | 17.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,354 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 80 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,012 | 17.3 | Foreign born | 220 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 140 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 113 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,185 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 107 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,120 | 7.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,041 | 14.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,493 | 38.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 220 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,381 | 16.8 | Europe | 51 | 23.2 | |
| Associate degree | 722 | 5.1 | Asia | 47 | 21.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,507 | 10.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 921 | 6.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 111 | 50.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.7 | (X) | Northern America | 11 | 5.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,405 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 17,057 | 100.0 | English only | 19,783 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 3,920 | 23.0 | Language other than English | 622 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,775 | 57.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 251 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 383 | 2.2 | Spanish | 445 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,288 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 202 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 1,023 | 6.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 128 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,691 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 807 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,757 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 666 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,588 | 80.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 341 | 51.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 55 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 9 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,034 | 100.0 | Dutch | 215 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,016 | 12.6 | English | 1,741 | 8.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 144 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 78 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,044 | 4.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,239 | 100.0 | Greek | 14 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 485 | 9.3 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,485 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,538 | 7.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,289 | 26.3 | Italian | 140 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 64.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,196 | 73.7 | Norwegian | 41 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 78.4 | (X) | Polish | 101 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,042 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 22 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 894 | 43.8 | Russian | 72 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 426 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 348 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,405 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 214 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,261 | 65.0 | Swedish | 66 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,980 | 34.2 | Swiss | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,543 | 12.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,437 | 21.7 | United States or American | 4,855 | 22.3 | |
| Same state | 3,534 | 17.3 | Welsh | 42 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 903 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 164 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 6,399 | 29.4 | |
| 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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