
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pike 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 | 12,837 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,792 | 100.0 | Native | 12,763 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 180 | 6.4 | Born in United States | 12,699 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 166 | 5.9 | State of residence | 10,994 | 85.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,442 | 51.6 | Different state | 1,705 | 13.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 671 | 24.0 | Born outside United States | 64 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 333 | 11.9 | Foreign born | 74 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 18 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 22 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,753 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 52 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 837 | 9.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,301 | 14.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,979 | 45.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 74 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,301 | 14.9 | Europe | 31 | 41.9 | |
| Associate degree | 596 | 6.8 | Asia | 16 | 21.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 404 | 4.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 335 | 3.8 | Oceania | 2 | 2.7 | |
| Latin America | 13 | 17.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.6 | (X) | Northern America | 12 | 16.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,018 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,292 | 100.0 | English only | 11,807 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 1,952 | 19.0 | Language other than English | 211 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,479 | 63.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 87 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 75 | 0.7 | Spanish | 80 | 0.7 | |
| Widowed | 763 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 670 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 115 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,023 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 500 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,837 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 151 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,659 | 75.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 81 | 53.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 16 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,758 | 100.0 | Dutch | 181 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,362 | 14.0 | English | 1,112 | 8.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 335 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 18 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,323 | 18.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,711 | 100.0 | Greek | 16 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 238 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,306 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,402 | 10.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,562 | 21.4 | Italian | 52 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 53.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 25 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 5,744 | 78.6 | Norwegian | 45 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 77.1 | (X) | Polish | 57 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,841 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 763 | 41.4 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 162 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 111 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,018 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,417 | 61.7 | Swedish | 27 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,570 | 38.0 | Swiss | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,416 | 20.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,154 | 17.9 | United States or American | 2,707 | 21.1 | |
| Same state | 1,696 | 14.1 | Welsh | 40 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 458 | 3.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 31 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 983 | 7.7 | |
| 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)

