DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tattnall 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 | 22,305 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,802 | 100.0 | Native | 21,018 | 94.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 322 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 20,892 | 93.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 326 | 6.8 | State of residence | 16,565 | 74.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,326 | 48.4 | Different state | 4,327 | 19.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,260 | 26.2 | Born outside United States | 126 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 568 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 1,287 | 5.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 741 | 3.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 309 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,688 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 978 | 4.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,720 | 11.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,228 | 22.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,760 | 39.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,287 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,390 | 16.3 | Europe | 49 | 3.8 | |
| Associate degree | 431 | 2.9 | Asia | 32 | 2.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 814 | 5.5 | Africa | 6 | 0.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 345 | 2.3 | Oceania | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 1,184 | 92.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.3 | (X) | Northern America | 14 | 1.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,981 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,062 | 100.0 | English only | 19,246 | 91.7 | |
| Never married | 4,180 | 23.1 | Language other than English | 1,735 | 8.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,299 | 51.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,055 | 5.0 | |
| Separated | 407 | 2.3 | Spanish | 1,621 | 7.7 | |
| Widowed | 2,500 | 13.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,039 | 5.0 | |
| Female | 1,024 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 94 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,676 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 879 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,305 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 421 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,120 | 67.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 311 | 73.9 | Arab | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 73 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,090 | 100.0 | Dutch | 96 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,208 | 12.9 | English | 1,078 | 4.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 295 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 34 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 948 | 4.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,641 | 100.0 | Greek | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 435 | 9.4 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,172 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,145 | 5.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,309 | 22.7 | Italian | 232 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 48.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,863 | 77.3 | Norwegian | 116 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 73.8 | (X) | Polish | 71 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,166 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,080 | 49.9 | Russian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 300 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 216 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,981 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 72 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,372 | 49.4 | Swedish | 64 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,185 | 48.5 | Swiss | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,659 | 17.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,526 | 31.1 | United States or American | 4,068 | 18.2 | |
| Same state | 5,135 | 24.5 | Welsh | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,391 | 6.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 424 | 2.0 | Other ancestries | 6,214 | 27.9 | |
| 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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