
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Putnam 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 | 6,086 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,497 | 100.0 | Native | 5,975 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 123 | 8.2 | Born in United States | 5,964 | 98.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 4.3 | State of residence | 5,281 | 86.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 726 | 48.5 | Different state | 683 | 11.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 373 | 24.9 | Born outside United States | 11 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 210 | 14.0 | Foreign born | 111 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 29 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 59 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,136 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 52 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 200 | 4.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 468 | 11.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,572 | 38.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 111 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,082 | 26.2 | Europe | 37 | 33.3 | |
| Associate degree | 315 | 7.6 | Asia | 10 | 9.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 326 | 7.9 | Africa | 3 | 2.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 173 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 61 | 55.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,726 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,838 | 100.0 | English only | 5,391 | 94.1 | |
| Never married | 922 | 19.1 | Language other than English | 335 | 5.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,110 | 64.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 136 | 2.4 | |
| Separated | 26 | 0.5 | Spanish | 196 | 3.4 | |
| Widowed | 367 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 81 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 293 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 113 | 2.0 | |
| Divorced | 413 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 44 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 198 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,086 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 94 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,481 | 122.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 52 | 55.3 | Arab | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 45 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 133 | 2.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,559 | 100.0 | Dutch | 125 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 765 | 16.8 | English | 658 | 10.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 141 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,995 | 32.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,398 | 100.0 | Greek | 16 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 123 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 22 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,351 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 765 | 12.6 | |
| With a disability | 506 | 15.1 | Italian | 1,131 | 18.6 | |
| Percent employed | 54.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 70 | 1.2 | |
| No disability | 2,845 | 84.9 | Norwegian | 79 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 77.9 | (X) | Polish | 578 | 9.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 965 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 391 | 40.5 | Russian | 24 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 97 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 134 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 44 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,726 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,834 | 67.0 | Swedish | 475 | 7.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,882 | 32.9 | Swiss | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 766 | 13.4 | Ukrainian | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 1,116 | 19.5 | United States or American | 191 | 3.1 | |
| Same state | 943 | 16.5 | Welsh | 25 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 173 | 3.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 10 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 684 | 11.2 | |
| 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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