
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Moultrie 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 | 14,287 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,304 | 100.0 | Native | 14,200 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 208 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 14,181 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 187 | 5.7 | State of residence | 12,139 | 85.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,706 | 51.6 | Different state | 2,042 | 14.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 846 | 25.6 | Born outside United States | 19 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 357 | 10.8 | Foreign born | 87 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 22 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 56 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,515 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,077 | 11.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 938 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,613 | 38.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 87 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,784 | 18.7 | Europe | 36 | 41.4 | |
| Associate degree | 701 | 7.4 | Asia | 21 | 24.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,025 | 10.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 377 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 18 | 20.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.8 | (X) | Northern America | 12 | 13.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,363 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,303 | 100.0 | English only | 12,437 | 93.1 | |
| Never married | 2,114 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 926 | 6.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,342 | 65.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 353 | 2.6 | |
| Separated | 98 | 0.9 | Spanish | 78 | 0.6 | |
| Widowed | 908 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 728 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 835 | 6.2 | |
| Divorced | 841 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 318 | 2.4 | |
| Female | 490 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,287 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 187 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,305 | 79.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 112 | 59.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 33 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 45 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,623 | 100.0 | Dutch | 274 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,434 | 13.5 | English | 1,421 | 9.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 349 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,209 | 22.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,227 | 100.0 | Greek | 23 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 284 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,585 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,489 | 10.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,094 | 14.4 | Italian | 186 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 56.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,491 | 85.6 | Norwegian | 74 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 83.7 | (X) | Polish | 155 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,146 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 11 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 843 | 39.3 | Russian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 182 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 166 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,363 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,185 | 61.3 | Swedish | 65 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,121 | 38.3 | Swiss | 62 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 2,601 | 19.5 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,520 | 18.9 | United States or American | 2,410 | 16.9 | |
| Same state | 2,003 | 15.0 | Welsh | 51 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 517 | 3.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 57 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 1,040 | 7.3 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

