
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Louisa 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 | 12,183 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,131 | 100.0 | Native | 11,359 | 93.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 197 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 11,314 | 92.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 246 | 7.9 | State of residence | 9,479 | 77.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,532 | 48.9 | Different state | 1,835 | 15.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 751 | 24.0 | Born outside United States | 45 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 405 | 12.9 | Foreign born | 824 | 6.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 427 | 3.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 247 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,828 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 577 | 4.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 587 | 7.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,005 | 12.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,206 | 41.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 824 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,494 | 19.1 | Europe | 10 | 1.2 | |
| Associate degree | 542 | 6.9 | Asia | 36 | 4.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 725 | 9.3 | Africa | 5 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 269 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 773 | 93.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,316 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,379 | 100.0 | English only | 9,847 | 87.0 | |
| Never married | 1,817 | 19.4 | Language other than English | 1,469 | 13.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,032 | 64.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 833 | 7.4 | |
| Separated | 111 | 1.2 | Spanish | 1,357 | 12.0 | |
| Widowed | 607 | 6.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 813 | 7.2 | |
| Female | 475 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 57 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 812 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 429 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 45 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,183 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 209 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,290 | 92.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 112 | 53.6 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 108 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 64 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,808 | 100.0 | Dutch | 284 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,139 | 12.9 | English | 1,099 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 374 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 27 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,183 | 26.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,923 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 219 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,686 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,345 | 11.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,116 | 16.7 | Italian | 89 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 58.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,570 | 83.3 | Norwegian | 206 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 80.8 | (X) | Polish | 94 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,563 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 557 | 35.6 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 233 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 126 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,316 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,232 | 63.9 | Swedish | 303 | 2.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,913 | 34.6 | Swiss | 91 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 1,921 | 17.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,992 | 17.6 | United States or American | 1,352 | 11.1 | |
| Same state | 1,289 | 11.4 | Welsh | 296 | 2.4 | |
| Different state | 703 | 6.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 171 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 1,995 | 16.4 | |
| 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)

