DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pulaski 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 | 56,217 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 12,531 | 100.0 | Native | 55,790 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 723 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 55,678 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 794 | 6.3 | State of residence | 44,073 | 78.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,107 | 48.7 | Different state | 11,605 | 20.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,126 | 24.9 | Born outside United States | 112 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,781 | 14.2 | Foreign born | 427 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 198 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 179 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 38,430 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 248 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,961 | 18.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,264 | 16.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,386 | 34.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 427 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,010 | 15.6 | Europe | 107 | 25.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,776 | 4.6 | Asia | 256 | 60.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,225 | 5.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,808 | 4.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 42 | 9.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.6 | (X) | Northern America | 22 | 5.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 52,874 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 45,462 | 100.0 | English only | 51,787 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 8,143 | 17.9 | Language other than English | 1,087 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 28,049 | 61.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 448 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 830 | 1.8 | Spanish | 471 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 3,655 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 226 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 3,114 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 381 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 4,785 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 60 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 2,521 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 184 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 138 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 56,217 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 666 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 37,902 | 67.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 372 | 55.9 | Arab | 65 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 39 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 22 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 42,979 | 100.0 | Dutch | 614 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,776 | 13.4 | English | 5,457 | 9.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 591 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 51 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,826 | 6.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 11,783 | 100.0 | Greek | 40 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,353 | 11.5 | Hungarian | 100 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 31,937 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,108 | 7.3 | |
| With a disability | 9,812 | 30.7 | Italian | 328 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 45.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 22,125 | 69.3 | Norwegian | 143 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 74.4 | (X) | Polish | 190 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,004 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,179 | 52.2 | Russian | 68 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 817 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 702 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 52,874 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 30,748 | 58.2 | Swedish | 75 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 21,767 | 41.2 | Swiss | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 13,485 | 25.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 8,282 | 15.7 | United States or American | 14,538 | 25.9 | |
| Same state | 4,053 | 7.7 | Welsh | 154 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 4,229 | 8.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 20 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 359 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 5,899 | 10.5 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
