DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Richmond 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 | 199,775 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 56,607 | 100.0 | Native | 192,984 | 96.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 3,843 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 187,409 | 93.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,077 | 5.4 | State of residence | 119,990 | 60.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 25,219 | 44.6 | Different state | 67,419 | 33.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 12,838 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 5,575 | 2.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 11,630 | 20.5 | Foreign born | 6,791 | 3.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,024 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,024 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 122,592 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,767 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 9,144 | 7.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 17,867 | 14.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 36,323 | 29.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 6,791 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 28,392 | 23.2 | Europe | 2,062 | 30.4 | |
| Associate degree | 7,957 | 6.5 | Asia | 2,391 | 35.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 14,767 | 12.0 | Africa | 259 | 3.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 8,142 | 6.6 | Oceania | 79 | 1.2 | |
| Latin America | 1,744 | 25.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.0 | (X) | Northern America | 256 | 3.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 185,414 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 155,058 | 100.0 | English only | 173,207 | 93.4 | |
| Never married | 48,993 | 31.6 | Language other than English | 12,207 | 6.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 71,391 | 46.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,912 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 4,977 | 3.2 | Spanish | 5,566 | 3.0 | |
| Widowed | 10,910 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,840 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 8,853 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 4,027 | 2.2 | |
| Divorced | 18,787 | 12.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 982 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 11,356 | 7.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,136 | 1.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 978 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 199,775 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 6,094 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 170,980 | 85.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,312 | 54.3 | Arab | 260 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 244 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 272 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 138,375 | 100.0 | Dutch | 917 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 24,745 | 17.9 | English | 11,735 | 5.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,457 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 695 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 11,480 | 5.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 47,207 | 100.0 | Greek | 286 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,562 | 9.7 | Hungarian | 317 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 105,909 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 11,685 | 5.8 | |
| With a disability | 27,104 | 25.6 | Italian | 2,742 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 50.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 73 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 78,805 | 74.4 | Norwegian | 731 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 72.6 | (X) | Polish | 1,279 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 21,309 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 265 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 10,968 | 51.5 | Russian | 265 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,425 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,789 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 35 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 185,414 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,420 | 1.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 93,957 | 50.7 | Swedish | 634 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 87,147 | 47.0 | Swiss | 92 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 47,962 | 25.9 | Ukrainian | 177 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 39,185 | 21.1 | United States or American | 18,571 | 9.3 | |
| Same state | 14,214 | 7.7 | Welsh | 651 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 24,971 | 13.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 776 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4,310 | 2.3 | Other ancestries | 96,707 | 48.4 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
