DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pickens 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 | 22,983 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,808 | 100.0 | Native | 22,530 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 462 | 9.6 | Born in United States | 22,409 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 331 | 6.9 | State of residence | 16,839 | 73.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,526 | 52.5 | Different state | 5,570 | 24.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 985 | 20.5 | Born outside United States | 121 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 504 | 10.5 | Foreign born | 453 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 227 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 128 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,868 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 325 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,855 | 11.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,873 | 18.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,259 | 33.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 453 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,902 | 18.3 | Europe | 157 | 34.7 | |
| Associate degree | 500 | 3.2 | Asia | 35 | 7.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,574 | 9.9 | Africa | 8 | 1.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 905 | 5.7 | Oceania | 11 | 2.4 | |
| Latin America | 215 | 47.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.2 | (X) | Northern America | 27 | 6.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 21,523 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,396 | 100.0 | English only | 20,753 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 2,835 | 15.4 | Language other than English | 770 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,242 | 66.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 370 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 274 | 1.5 | Spanish | 471 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,170 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 288 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 990 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 267 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,875 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 82 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,030 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,983 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 402 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 18,993 | 82.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 137 | 34.1 | Arab | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 32 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 11 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,573 | 100.0 | Dutch | 284 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,436 | 13.9 | English | 2,309 | 10.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 402 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 52 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,645 | 7.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,620 | 100.0 | Greek | 12 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 350 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 49 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,800 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,848 | 12.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,261 | 23.6 | Italian | 442 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 61.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,539 | 76.4 | Norwegian | 90 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 77.6 | (X) | Polish | 89 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,883 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,194 | 41.4 | Russian | 36 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 513 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 423 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 21,523 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,207 | 56.7 | Swedish | 106 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,225 | 42.9 | Swiss | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 3,859 | 17.9 | Ukrainian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 5,366 | 24.9 | United States or American | 6,282 | 27.3 | |
| Same state | 4,097 | 19.0 | Welsh | 143 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 1,269 | 5.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 91 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 3,125 | 13.6 | |
| 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
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