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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Montgomery 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 22,554 100.0
      enrolled in school 4,925 100.0   Native 22,448 99.5
Nursery school, preschool 319 6.5       Born in United States 22,385 99.3
Kindergarten 327 6.6           State of residence 18,516 82.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,639 53.6           Different state 3,869 17.2
High school (grades 9-12) 1,066 21.6       Born outside United States 63 0.3
College or graduate school 574 11.7   Foreign born 106 0.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 70 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 29 0.1
  Population 25 years and over 15,033 100.0       Not a citizen 77 0.3
Less than 9th grade 2,204 14.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,229 14.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 5,904 39.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 106 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,189 14.6   Europe 29 27.4
Associate degree 493 3.3   Asia 24 22.6
Bachelor's degree 1,370 9.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 644 4.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 53 50.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 70.5 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 13.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 21,026 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 17,896 100.0   English only 20,592 97.9
Never married 3,385 18.9   Language other than English 434 2.1
Now married, except separated 10,659 59.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 146 0.7
Separated 318 1.8   Spanish 292 1.4
Widowed 1,454 8.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 89 0.4
 Female 1,234 6.9   Other Indo-European languages 105 0.5
Divorced 2,080 11.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 38 0.2
 Female 1,130 6.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 26 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 19 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 22,554 100.0
           under 18 years 421 100.0     Total ancestries reported 15,089 66.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 254 60.3   Arab 3 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 4 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 16,966 100.0   Dutch 144 0.6
Civilian veterans 2,075 12.2   English 2,160 9.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 280 1.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 75 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,564 6.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 4,848 100.0   Greek 32 0.1
With a disability 402 8.3   Hungarian 6 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 13,120 100.0   Irish¹ 1,643 7.3
With a disability 3,381 25.8   Italian 243 1.1
 Percent employed 48.5 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 9,739 74.2   Norwegian 38 0.2
 Percent employed 75.3 (X)   Polish 50 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 2,720 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 1,498 55.1   Russian 32 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 374 1.7
        Scottish 209 0.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 21,026 100.0   Subsaharan African 21 0.1
Same house in 1995 11,542 54.9   Swedish 60 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 9,384 44.6   Swiss 9 0.0
 Same county 5,384 25.6   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 4,000 19.0   United States or American 6,174 27.4
  Same state 2,771 13.2   Welsh 42 0.2
  Different state 1,229 5.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 100 0.5   Other ancestries 1,926 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.
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