
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greene 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 | 33,157 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,678 | 100.0 | Native | 33,005 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 536 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 32,921 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 441 | 5.7 | State of residence | 27,725 | 83.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,946 | 51.4 | Different state | 5,196 | 15.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,593 | 20.7 | Born outside United States | 84 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,162 | 15.1 | Foreign born | 152 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 37 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 79 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,396 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 73 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,394 | 6.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,274 | 14.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,728 | 43.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 152 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,145 | 18.5 | Europe | 86 | 56.6 | |
| Associate degree | 1,512 | 6.8 | Asia | 32 | 21.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,453 | 6.5 | Africa | 4 | 2.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 890 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 10 | 6.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.2 | (X) | Northern America | 20 | 13.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 31,105 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 26,410 | 100.0 | English only | 30,415 | 97.8 | |
| Never married | 4,504 | 17.1 | Language other than English | 690 | 2.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 16,668 | 63.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 202 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 237 | 0.9 | Spanish | 337 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 2,080 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 77 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,785 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 330 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 2,921 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 112 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,495 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 33,157 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 318 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 25,325 | 76.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 213 | 67.0 | Arab | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 54 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 44 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,937 | 100.0 | Dutch | 868 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,977 | 15.9 | English | 3,305 | 10.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,118 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 108 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,881 | 17.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,285 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 634 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 35 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,617 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,275 | 9.9 | |
| With a disability | 4,033 | 21.7 | Italian | 232 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 54.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 45 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 14,584 | 78.3 | Norwegian | 78 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 78.2 | (X) | Polish | 170 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,687 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,221 | 47.4 | Russian | 57 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 484 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 704 | 2.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 26 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 31,105 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 19,485 | 62.6 | Swedish | 93 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,558 | 37.2 | Swiss | 106 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 6,843 | 22.0 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,715 | 15.2 | United States or American | 5,569 | 16.8 | |
| Same state | 3,453 | 11.1 | Welsh | 244 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 1,262 | 4.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 62 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 2,811 | 8.5 | |
| 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)

