DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Worth 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 | 21,967 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,158 | 100.0 | Native | 21,758 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 466 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 21,660 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 443 | 7.2 | State of residence | 18,253 | 83.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,956 | 48.0 | Different state | 3,407 | 15.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,601 | 26.0 | Born outside United States | 98 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 692 | 11.2 | Foreign born | 209 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 81 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 84 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,979 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 125 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,510 | 10.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,920 | 20.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,330 | 38.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 209 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,480 | 17.7 | Europe | 46 | 22.0 | |
| Associate degree | 539 | 3.9 | Asia | 54 | 25.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 795 | 5.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 405 | 2.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 100 | 47.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.3 | (X) | Northern America | 9 | 4.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,416 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,872 | 100.0 | English only | 20,039 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 3,838 | 22.7 | Language other than English | 377 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,797 | 58.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 121 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 400 | 2.4 | Spanish | 261 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 1,292 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 92 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,110 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 85 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,545 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 873 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,967 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 855 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,077 | 73.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 489 | 57.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 40 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,652 | 100.0 | Dutch | 77 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,107 | 13.5 | English | 1,375 | 6.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 120 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 24 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 898 | 4.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,611 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 413 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,066 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,462 | 6.7 | |
| With a disability | 2,966 | 24.6 | Italian | 154 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 56.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,100 | 75.4 | Norwegian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.3 | (X) | Polish | 54 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,678 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,602 | 59.8 | Russian | 78 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 250 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 314 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,416 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 242 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,252 | 64.9 | Swedish | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,091 | 34.7 | Swiss | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 3,481 | 17.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,610 | 17.7 | United States or American | 3,994 | 18.2 | |
| Same state | 2,675 | 13.1 | Welsh | 57 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 935 | 4.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 73 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 6,873 | 31.3 | |
| 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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