
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Elk 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 | 3,261 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 730 | 100.0 | Native | 3,238 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 35 | 4.8 | Born in United States | 3,228 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 36 | 4.9 | State of residence | 2,393 | 73.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 367 | 50.3 | Different state | 835 | 25.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 200 | 27.4 | Born outside United States | 10 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 92 | 12.6 | Foreign born | 23 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 12 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,354 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 19 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 178 | 7.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 293 | 12.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 978 | 41.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 23 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 542 | 23.0 | Europe | 9 | 39.1 | |
| Associate degree | 114 | 4.8 | Asia | 2 | 8.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 160 | 6.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 89 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 12 | 52.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.0 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,132 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,685 | 100.0 | English only | 3,047 | 97.3 | |
| Never married | 423 | 15.8 | Language other than English | 85 | 2.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,692 | 63.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 43 | 1.6 | Spanish | 74 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 288 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 234 | 8.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 10 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 239 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 90 | 3.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 3,261 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 41 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,535 | 77.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 31 | 75.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 15 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,527 | 100.0 | Dutch | 77 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 399 | 15.8 | English | 407 | 12.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 93 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 589 | 18.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 684 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 39 | 5.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,614 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 364 | 11.2 | |
| With a disability | 353 | 21.9 | Italian | 30 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 46.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,261 | 78.1 | Norwegian | 10 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 76.7 | (X) | Polish | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 746 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 328 | 44.0 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 55 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 59 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,132 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,098 | 67.0 | Swedish | 28 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,023 | 32.7 | Swiss | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 394 | 12.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 629 | 20.1 | United States or American | 397 | 12.2 | |
| Same state | 421 | 13.4 | Welsh | 7 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 208 | 6.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 11 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 376 | 11.5 | |
| 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
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