DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Spalding 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 | 58,417 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 14,632 | 100.0 | Native | 57,145 | 97.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,148 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 56,860 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 663 | 4.5 | State of residence | 45,804 | 78.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,810 | 53.4 | Different state | 11,056 | 18.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,333 | 22.8 | Born outside United States | 285 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,678 | 11.5 | Foreign born | 1,272 | 2.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 768 | 1.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 325 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 37,110 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 947 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,041 | 10.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,924 | 21.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,885 | 34.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,272 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,145 | 16.6 | Europe | 117 | 9.2 | |
| Associate degree | 1,487 | 4.0 | Asia | 490 | 38.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,106 | 8.4 | Africa | 43 | 3.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,522 | 4.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 589 | 46.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.8 | (X) | Northern America | 33 | 2.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 54,144 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 45,018 | 100.0 | English only | 51,946 | 95.9 | |
| Never married | 11,742 | 26.1 | Language other than English | 2,198 | 4.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,199 | 51.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,038 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 1,242 | 2.8 | Spanish | 1,148 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 3,422 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 638 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 2,807 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 541 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 5,413 | 12.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 185 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 3,061 | 6.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 250 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 58,417 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,935 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 47,157 | 80.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 904 | 46.7 | Arab | 184 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 16 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 42,485 | 100.0 | Dutch | 448 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,337 | 12.6 | English | 4,078 | 7.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 608 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 134 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,913 | 5.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 14,087 | 100.0 | Greek | 68 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,446 | 10.3 | Hungarian | 57 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 32,800 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,494 | 6.0 | |
| With a disability | 8,827 | 26.9 | Italian | 467 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 54.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 14 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 23,973 | 73.1 | Norwegian | 116 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 74.1 | (X) | Polish | 200 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,454 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,079 | 47.7 | Russian | 55 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 760 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 882 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 54,144 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 732 | 1.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 28,919 | 53.4 | Swedish | 97 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 24,571 | 45.4 | Swiss | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 14,424 | 26.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 10,147 | 18.7 | United States or American | 10,822 | 18.5 | |
| Same state | 7,210 | 13.3 | Welsh | 277 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 2,937 | 5.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 44 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 654 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 20,653 | 35.4 | |
| 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)
