DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Taliaferro 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 | 2,077 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 463 | 100.0 | Native | 2,066 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 38 | 8.2 | Born in United States | 2,063 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 4.8 | State of residence | 1,869 | 90.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 230 | 49.7 | Different state | 194 | 9.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 127 | 27.4 | Born outside United States | 3 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 46 | 9.9 | Foreign born | 11 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 5 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,434 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 307 | 21.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 321 | 22.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 467 | 32.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 11 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 137 | 9.6 | Europe | 8 | 72.7 | |
| Associate degree | 82 | 5.7 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 65 | 4.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 55 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 3 | 27.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 56.2 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,945 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,675 | 100.0 | English only | 1,912 | 98.3 | |
| Never married | 504 | 30.1 | Language other than English | 33 | 1.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 741 | 44.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Separated | 67 | 4.0 | Spanish | 23 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 220 | 13.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 186 | 11.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 143 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 70 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 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 | 2,077 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 60 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,538 | 74.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 20 | 33.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,573 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 142 | 9.0 | English | 80 | 3.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 24 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 50 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 430 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 49 | 11.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,128 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 90 | 4.3 | |
| With a disability | 280 | 24.8 | Italian | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 28.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 848 | 75.2 | Norwegian | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 71.1 | (X) | Polish | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 364 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 214 | 58.8 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 39 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 7 | 0.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,945 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 13 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,416 | 72.8 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 527 | 27.1 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 222 | 11.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 305 | 15.7 | United States or American | 182 | 8.8 | |
| Same state | 257 | 13.2 | Welsh | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 48 | 2.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 1,022 | 49.2 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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