DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Rockdale 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 | 70,111 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 19,019 | 100.0 | Native | 64,750 | 92.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,623 | 8.5 | Born in United States | 63,961 | 91.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,069 | 5.6 | State of residence | 38,567 | 55.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,125 | 48.0 | Different state | 25,394 | 36.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,624 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 789 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,578 | 13.6 | Foreign born | 5,361 | 7.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,518 | 5.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,361 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 44,794 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4,000 | 5.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,755 | 6.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,125 | 11.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,152 | 29.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 5,361 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 10,735 | 24.0 | Europe | 627 | 11.7 | |
| Associate degree | 2,566 | 5.7 | Asia | 957 | 17.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 7,102 | 15.9 | Africa | 147 | 2.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,359 | 7.5 | Oceania | 40 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 3,457 | 64.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.4 | (X) | Northern America | 133 | 2.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 65,480 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 54,317 | 100.0 | English only | 59,122 | 90.3 | |
| Never married | 12,432 | 22.9 | Language other than English | 6,358 | 9.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 32,862 | 60.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,349 | 5.1 | |
| Separated | 855 | 1.6 | Spanish | 4,290 | 6.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,640 | 4.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,680 | 4.1 | |
| Female | 2,183 | 4.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,152 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 5,528 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 211 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 3,075 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 830 | 1.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 449 | 0.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 70,111 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,858 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 62,167 | 88.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 755 | 40.6 | Arab | 142 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 152 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 77 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 50,702 | 100.0 | Dutch | 733 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,086 | 15.9 | English | 7,098 | 10.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,414 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 355 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,821 | 9.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 17,510 | 100.0 | Greek | 234 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,252 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 84 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 40,886 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,180 | 10.2 | |
| With a disability | 7,695 | 18.8 | Italian | 1,553 | 2.2 | |
| Percent employed | 56.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 89 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 33,191 | 81.2 | Norwegian | 501 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 78.2 | (X) | Polish | 790 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,338 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 87 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,859 | 45.1 | Russian | 181 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,557 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,514 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 60 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 65,480 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 381 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 34,042 | 52.0 | Swedish | 451 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 29,113 | 44.5 | Swiss | 101 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 10,376 | 15.8 | Ukrainian | 72 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 18,737 | 28.6 | United States or American | 9,064 | 12.9 | |
| Same state | 11,399 | 17.4 | Welsh | 367 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 7,338 | 11.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 311 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,325 | 3.6 | Other ancestries | 20,798 | 29.7 | |
| 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)
