DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pulaski 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 | 7,348 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,064 | 100.0 | Native | 7,300 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 166 | 8.0 | Born in United States | 7,274 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 113 | 5.5 | State of residence | 4,977 | 67.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 962 | 46.6 | Different state | 2,297 | 31.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 497 | 24.1 | Born outside United States | 26 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 326 | 15.8 | Foreign born | 48 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 16 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,704 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 32 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 583 | 12.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 794 | 16.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,489 | 31.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 48 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,110 | 23.6 | Europe | 10 | 20.8 | |
| Associate degree | 393 | 8.4 | Asia | 14 | 29.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 240 | 5.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 95 | 2.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 22 | 45.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 4.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,881 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,731 | 100.0 | English only | 6,723 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 1,295 | 22.6 | Language other than English | 158 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,133 | 54.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 66 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 139 | 2.4 | Spanish | 57 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 577 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 471 | 8.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 25 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 587 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 291 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 53 | 0.8 | |
| 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 | 7,348 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 203 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,885 | 80.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 129 | 63.5 | Arab | 27 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 20 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,336 | 100.0 | Dutch | 90 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 753 | 14.1 | English | 504 | 6.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 90 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 884 | 12.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,838 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 192 | 10.4 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,593 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 591 | 8.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,072 | 29.8 | Italian | 41 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 52.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,521 | 70.2 | Norwegian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.9 | (X) | Polish | 15 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,227 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 583 | 47.5 | Russian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 63 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 51 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,881 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 103 | 1.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,479 | 65.1 | Swedish | 19 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,360 | 34.3 | Swiss | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,369 | 19.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 991 | 14.4 | United States or American | 1,371 | 18.7 | |
| Same state | 729 | 10.6 | Welsh | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 262 | 3.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 42 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 1,981 | 27.0 | |
| 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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