DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Alexander 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 | 9,590 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,413 | 100.0 | Native | 9,506 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 201 | 8.3 | Born in United States | 9,485 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 134 | 5.6 | State of residence | 5,596 | 58.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,156 | 47.9 | Different state | 3,889 | 40.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 647 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 21 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 275 | 11.4 | Foreign born | 84 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 24 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 53 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,395 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 31 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 661 | 10.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,451 | 22.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,219 | 34.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 84 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,218 | 19.0 | Europe | 14 | 16.7 | |
| Associate degree | 407 | 6.4 | Asia | 24 | 28.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 276 | 4.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 163 | 2.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 33 | 39.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.0 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 15.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 6.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,988 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,591 | 100.0 | English only | 8,712 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 1,637 | 21.6 | Language other than English | 276 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,992 | 52.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 64 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 231 | 3.0 | Spanish | 160 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 696 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 587 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 87 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,035 | 13.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 495 | 6.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,590 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 311 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,214 | 75.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 225 | 72.3 | Arab | 45 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,105 | 100.0 | Dutch | 115 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,053 | 14.8 | English | 470 | 4.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 139 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 15 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 905 | 9.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,232 | 100.0 | Greek | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 237 | 10.6 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,675 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 706 | 7.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,388 | 29.7 | Italian | 80 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 40.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,287 | 70.3 | Norwegian | 52 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 69.3 | (X) | Polish | 45 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,529 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 755 | 49.4 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 115 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 153 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,988 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,707 | 63.5 | Swedish | 15 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,270 | 36.4 | Swiss | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,579 | 17.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,691 | 18.8 | United States or American | 999 | 10.4 | |
| Same state | 934 | 10.4 | Welsh | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 757 | 8.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 11 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 3,295 | 34.4 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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