DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Peach 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 | 23,668 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,642 | 100.0 | Native | 22,777 | 96.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 438 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 22,608 | 95.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 364 | 4.8 | State of residence | 17,541 | 74.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,919 | 38.2 | Different state | 5,067 | 21.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,647 | 21.6 | Born outside United States | 169 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,274 | 29.8 | Foreign born | 891 | 3.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 511 | 2.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 204 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,055 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 687 | 2.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,295 | 9.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,446 | 17.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,667 | 33.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 891 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,711 | 19.3 | Europe | 42 | 4.7 | |
| Associate degree | 580 | 4.1 | Asia | 78 | 8.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,371 | 9.8 | Africa | 58 | 6.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 985 | 7.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 711 | 79.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.4 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 22,133 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,578 | 100.0 | English only | 20,611 | 93.1 | |
| Never married | 6,077 | 32.7 | Language other than English | 1,522 | 6.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,685 | 46.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 596 | 2.7 | |
| Separated | 737 | 4.0 | Spanish | 1,107 | 5.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,227 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 523 | 2.4 | |
| Female | 981 | 5.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 227 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,852 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,076 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 145 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 51 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 23,668 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 712 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,055 | 80.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 364 | 51.1 | Arab | 45 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 21 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 15 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,460 | 100.0 | Dutch | 83 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,340 | 13.4 | English | 1,374 | 5.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 256 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 45 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 933 | 3.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,279 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 515 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,377 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 989 | 4.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,074 | 23.0 | Italian | 219 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 53.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 10,303 | 77.0 | Norwegian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 68.0 | (X) | Polish | 149 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,328 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,214 | 52.1 | Russian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 279 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 307 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 22,133 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 254 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,397 | 56.0 | Swedish | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,328 | 42.1 | Swiss | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,942 | 17.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,386 | 24.3 | United States or American | 3,001 | 12.7 | |
| Same state | 3,719 | 16.8 | Welsh | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,667 | 7.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 408 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 10,942 | 46.2 | |
| 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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