
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 | 10,366 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,518 | 100.0 | Native | 10,241 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 140 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 10,223 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 143 | 5.7 | State of residence | 8,763 | 84.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,273 | 50.6 | Different state | 1,460 | 14.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 727 | 28.9 | Born outside United States | 18 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 235 | 9.3 | Foreign born | 125 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 42 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 44 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,048 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 81 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 335 | 4.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 681 | 9.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,980 | 42.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 125 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,450 | 20.6 | Europe | 63 | 50.4 | |
| Associate degree | 571 | 8.1 | Asia | 11 | 8.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 792 | 11.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 239 | 3.4 | Oceania | 2 | 1.6 | |
| Latin America | 47 | 37.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.6 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 1.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,758 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,235 | 100.0 | English only | 9,367 | 96.0 | |
| Never married | 1,652 | 20.1 | Language other than English | 391 | 4.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,895 | 59.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 127 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 84 | 1.0 | Spanish | 225 | 2.3 | |
| Widowed | 877 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 88 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 746 | 9.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 159 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 727 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 373 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 10,366 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 79 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,558 | 101.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 52 | 65.8 | Arab | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 82 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 286 | 2.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,711 | 100.0 | Dutch | 366 | 3.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,036 | 13.4 | English | 1,282 | 12.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 250 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 45 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,691 | 35.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,362 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 132 | 5.6 | Hungarian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,122 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,444 | 13.9 | |
| With a disability | 830 | 16.2 | Italian | 160 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 63.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,292 | 83.8 | Norwegian | 382 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 83.5 | (X) | Polish | 78 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,040 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 781 | 38.3 | Russian | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 140 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 240 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,758 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,321 | 64.8 | Swedish | 447 | 4.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,372 | 34.6 | Swiss | 41 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 1,838 | 18.8 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,534 | 15.7 | United States or American | 957 | 9.2 | |
| Same state | 1,028 | 10.5 | Welsh | 104 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 506 | 5.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 65 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 509 | 4.9 | |
| 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)

