DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Muscogee 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 | 186,291 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 50,950 | 100.0 | Native | 177,626 | 95.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,095 | 8.0 | Born in United States | 172,538 | 92.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,094 | 6.1 | State of residence | 98,220 | 52.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 22,484 | 44.1 | Different state | 74,318 | 39.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 11,219 | 22.0 | Born outside United States | 5,088 | 2.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 10,058 | 19.7 | Foreign born | 8,665 | 4.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,315 | 1.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,197 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 114,045 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4,468 | 2.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 7,985 | 7.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 16,059 | 14.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 32,127 | 28.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 8,665 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 27,416 | 24.0 | Europe | 2,684 | 31.0 | |
| Associate degree | 7,278 | 6.4 | Asia | 2,213 | 25.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 14,086 | 12.4 | Africa | 228 | 2.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 9,094 | 8.0 | Oceania | 138 | 1.6 | |
| Latin America | 3,272 | 37.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.9 | (X) | Northern America | 130 | 1.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 172,678 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 144,786 | 100.0 | English only | 158,649 | 91.9 | |
| Never married | 41,898 | 28.9 | Language other than English | 14,029 | 8.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 68,867 | 47.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,848 | 2.8 | |
| Separated | 5,377 | 3.7 | Spanish | 7,216 | 4.2 | |
| Widowed | 11,316 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,586 | 1.5 | |
| Female | 9,549 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 4,322 | 2.5 | |
| Divorced | 17,328 | 12.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,184 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 10,647 | 7.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,235 | 1.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,034 | 0.6 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 186,291 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 5,091 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 166,467 | 89.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,571 | 50.5 | Arab | 79 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 344 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 192 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 127,289 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,260 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 24,984 | 19.6 | English | 11,637 | 6.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,532 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 567 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 12,556 | 6.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 43,446 | 100.0 | Greek | 210 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,740 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 386 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 95,838 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 12,280 | 6.6 | |
| With a disability | 23,093 | 24.1 | Italian | 3,008 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 54.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 99 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 72,745 | 75.9 | Norwegian | 762 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 75.3 | (X) | Polish | 1,571 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 20,893 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 289 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 10,250 | 49.1 | Russian | 284 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,756 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,338 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 93 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 172,678 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,526 | 1.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 82,593 | 47.8 | Swedish | 510 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 84,741 | 49.1 | Swiss | 106 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 46,470 | 26.9 | Ukrainian | 79 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 38,271 | 22.2 | United States or American | 18,258 | 9.8 | |
| Same state | 10,808 | 6.3 | Welsh | 549 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 27,463 | 15.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 979 | 0.5 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5,344 | 3.1 | Other ancestries | 90,217 | 48.4 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
