DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Oconee 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 | 26,225 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,782 | 100.0 | Native | 25,066 | 95.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 703 | 9.0 | Born in United States | 24,808 | 94.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 404 | 5.2 | State of residence | 16,138 | 61.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,847 | 49.4 | Different state | 8,670 | 33.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,783 | 22.9 | Born outside United States | 258 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,045 | 13.4 | Foreign born | 1,159 | 4.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 583 | 2.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 439 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,470 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 720 | 2.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 742 | 4.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,450 | 8.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,850 | 23.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,159 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,069 | 18.6 | Europe | 225 | 19.4 | |
| Associate degree | 806 | 4.9 | Asia | 279 | 24.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,739 | 22.7 | Africa | 28 | 2.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,814 | 17.1 | Oceania | 6 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 515 | 44.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.7 | (X) | Northern America | 106 | 9.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 39.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 24,392 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 19,621 | 100.0 | English only | 22,833 | 93.6 | |
| Never married | 3,932 | 20.0 | Language other than English | 1,559 | 6.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,986 | 66.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 696 | 2.9 | |
| Separated | 251 | 1.3 | Spanish | 854 | 3.5 | |
| Widowed | 964 | 4.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 436 | 1.8 | |
| Female | 806 | 4.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 446 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,488 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 158 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 886 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 240 | 1.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 102 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 26,225 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 410 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 22,892 | 87.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 186 | 45.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 55 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 18 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,242 | 100.0 | Dutch | 278 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,316 | 12.7 | English | 3,524 | 13.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 733 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 124 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,682 | 10.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,067 | 100.0 | Greek | 79 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 589 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 75 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 15,021 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,993 | 11.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,909 | 12.7 | Italian | 817 | 3.1 | |
| Percent employed | 64.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 33 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 13,112 | 87.3 | Norwegian | 134 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 81.5 | (X) | Polish | 250 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,165 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,109 | 51.2 | Russian | 67 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 710 | 2.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 722 | 2.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 33 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 24,392 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 106 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,522 | 51.3 | Swedish | 160 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,498 | 47.1 | Swiss | 94 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 3,032 | 12.4 | Ukrainian | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 8,466 | 34.7 | United States or American | 4,084 | 15.6 | |
| Same state | 5,510 | 22.6 | Welsh | 234 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 2,956 | 12.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 372 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 4,826 | 18.4 | |
| 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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