DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Troup 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 | 58,779 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 15,898 | 100.0 | Native | 57,614 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,342 | 8.4 | Born in United States | 57,361 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 938 | 5.9 | State of residence | 41,727 | 71.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,575 | 47.6 | Different state | 15,634 | 26.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,964 | 24.9 | Born outside United States | 253 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,079 | 13.1 | Foreign born | 1,165 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 594 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 367 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 36,815 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 798 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,303 | 9.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,644 | 18.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,395 | 33.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,165 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,340 | 17.2 | Europe | 201 | 17.3 | |
| Associate degree | 1,519 | 4.1 | Asia | 362 | 31.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,423 | 12.0 | Africa | 14 | 1.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,191 | 6.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 545 | 46.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.0 | (X) | Northern America | 43 | 3.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 54,556 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 45,122 | 100.0 | English only | 52,459 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 11,513 | 25.5 | Language other than English | 2,097 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,158 | 51.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 925 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 1,599 | 3.5 | Spanish | 1,276 | 2.3 | |
| Widowed | 3,810 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 702 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 3,235 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 448 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 5,042 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 137 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,933 | 6.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 313 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 86 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 58,779 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,839 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 46,480 | 79.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,056 | 57.4 | Arab | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 27 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 87 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 42,389 | 100.0 | Dutch | 402 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,453 | 12.9 | English | 4,376 | 7.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 726 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 110 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,626 | 4.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 14,532 | 100.0 | Greek | 72 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,321 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 56 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 31,980 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,129 | 7.0 | |
| With a disability | 7,641 | 23.9 | Italian | 531 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 56.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 24,339 | 76.1 | Norwegian | 176 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 80.0 | (X) | Polish | 226 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,060 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 19 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,536 | 50.1 | Russian | 29 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,172 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 815 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 54,556 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 294 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 28,968 | 53.1 | Swedish | 150 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 24,817 | 45.5 | Swiss | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 15,479 | 28.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 9,338 | 17.1 | United States or American | 10,495 | 17.9 | |
| Same state | 4,835 | 8.9 | Welsh | 129 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 4,503 | 8.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 771 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 19,760 | 33.6 | |
| 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)
