DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Putnam 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 | 18,812 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,207 | 100.0 | Native | 18,343 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 326 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 18,302 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 325 | 7.7 | State of residence | 14,820 | 78.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,004 | 47.6 | Different state | 3,482 | 18.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,003 | 23.8 | Born outside United States | 41 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 549 | 13.0 | Foreign born | 469 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 291 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 117 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,931 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 352 | 1.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,027 | 7.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,147 | 16.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,241 | 40.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 469 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,084 | 16.1 | Europe | 86 | 18.3 | |
| Associate degree | 570 | 4.4 | Asia | 36 | 7.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,107 | 8.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 755 | 5.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 336 | 71.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.5 | (X) | Northern America | 11 | 2.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 17,632 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 15,169 | 100.0 | English only | 16,797 | 95.3 | |
| Never married | 3,281 | 21.6 | Language other than English | 835 | 4.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,913 | 58.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 456 | 2.6 | |
| Separated | 255 | 1.7 | Spanish | 623 | 3.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,069 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 382 | 2.2 | |
| Female | 891 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 141 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,651 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 55 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 875 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 58 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 18,812 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 394 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 14,433 | 76.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 179 | 45.4 | Arab | 69 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 48 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 14,446 | 100.0 | Dutch | 200 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,493 | 17.3 | English | 1,885 | 10.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 205 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 45 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 946 | 5.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,842 | 100.0 | Greek | 71 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 314 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,879 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,444 | 7.7 | |
| With a disability | 2,522 | 23.2 | Italian | 193 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 51.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 8,357 | 76.8 | Norwegian | 38 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 72.4 | (X) | Polish | 106 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,650 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,272 | 48.0 | Russian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 297 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 219 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 17,632 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,258 | 58.2 | Swedish | 84 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,090 | 40.2 | Swiss | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,752 | 15.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,338 | 24.6 | United States or American | 2,938 | 15.6 | |
| Same state | 3,511 | 19.9 | Welsh | 35 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 827 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 284 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 5,506 | 29.3 | |
| 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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