DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Henderson 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 | 8,213 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,882 | 100.0 | Native | 8,183 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 143 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 8,147 | 99.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 5.6 | State of residence | 4,220 | 51.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 868 | 46.1 | Different state | 3,927 | 47.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 487 | 25.9 | Born outside United States | 36 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 278 | 14.8 | Foreign born | 30 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 18 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,680 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 290 | 5.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 707 | 12.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,631 | 46.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 30 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,157 | 20.4 | Europe | 7 | 23.3 | |
| Associate degree | 326 | 5.7 | Asia | 9 | 30.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 393 | 6.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 176 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 14 | 46.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,740 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,677 | 100.0 | English only | 7,577 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 1,228 | 18.4 | Language other than English | 163 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,197 | 62.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 40 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 59 | 0.9 | Spanish | 109 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 472 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 372 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 50 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 721 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 342 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 8,213 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 153 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,245 | 88.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 122 | 79.7 | Arab | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 31 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,300 | 100.0 | Dutch | 242 | 2.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,058 | 16.8 | English | 976 | 11.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 140 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 18 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,732 | 21.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,743 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 128 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,627 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,153 | 14.0 | |
| With a disability | 836 | 18.1 | Italian | 66 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 63.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,791 | 81.9 | Norwegian | 56 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 95 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,314 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 512 | 39.0 | Russian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 187 | 2.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 141 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,740 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,299 | 68.5 | Swedish | 473 | 5.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,430 | 31.4 | Swiss | 30 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 1,108 | 14.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,322 | 17.1 | United States or American | 1,291 | 15.7 | |
| Same state | 556 | 7.2 | Welsh | 45 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 766 | 9.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 11 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 542 | 6.6 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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