DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Paulding 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 | 81,678 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 21,260 | 100.0 | Native | 79,963 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,896 | 8.9 | Born in United States | 79,287 | 97.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,567 | 7.4 | State of residence | 52,806 | 64.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 11,192 | 52.6 | Different state | 26,481 | 32.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,198 | 19.7 | Born outside United States | 676 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,407 | 11.3 | Foreign born | 1,715 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 740 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 766 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 50,422 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 949 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,578 | 5.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,107 | 14.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 19,702 | 39.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,715 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 11,040 | 21.9 | Europe | 373 | 21.7 | |
| Associate degree | 2,327 | 4.6 | Asia | 437 | 25.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,851 | 11.6 | Africa | 223 | 13.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,817 | 3.6 | Oceania | 24 | 1.4 | |
| Latin America | 596 | 34.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.8 | (X) | Northern America | 62 | 3.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 73,976 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 59,950 | 100.0 | English only | 70,770 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 9,960 | 16.6 | Language other than English | 3,206 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 40,919 | 68.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,051 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 880 | 1.5 | Spanish | 1,777 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 2,338 | 3.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 615 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 1,942 | 3.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,005 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 5,853 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 347 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 3,111 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 214 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 81,678 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,615 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 65,537 | 80.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 597 | 37.0 | Arab | 56 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 195 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 175 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 56,405 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,134 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 7,279 | 12.9 | English | 6,108 | 7.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,422 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 375 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,146 | 8.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 19,676 | 100.0 | Greek | 101 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,155 | 5.9 | Hungarian | 32 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 48,934 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,663 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 8,026 | 16.4 | Italian | 2,134 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 61.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 67 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 40,908 | 83.6 | Norwegian | 370 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 82.5 | (X) | Polish | 986 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,760 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 96 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,409 | 50.6 | Russian | 202 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,420 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,449 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 78 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 73,976 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 376 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 34,628 | 46.8 | Swedish | 381 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 38,784 | 52.4 | Swiss | 64 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 10,488 | 14.2 | Ukrainian | 206 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 28,296 | 38.3 | United States or American | 19,910 | 24.4 | |
| Same state | 20,244 | 27.4 | Welsh | 315 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 8,052 | 10.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 295 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 564 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 12,781 | 15.6 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)
