DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Baltimore 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 | 754,292 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 201,904 | 100.0 | Native | 700,508 | 92.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 13,741 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 695,054 | 92.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 9,624 | 4.8 | State of residence | 517,366 | 68.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 84,510 | 41.9 | Different state | 177,688 | 23.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 40,867 | 20.2 | Born outside United States | 5,454 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 53,162 | 26.3 | Foreign born | 53,784 | 7.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 24,550 | 3.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 28,791 | 3.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 511,434 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 24,993 | 3.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 24,907 | 4.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 55,147 | 10.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 141,035 | 27.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 53,784 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 105,147 | 20.6 | Europe | 16,437 | 30.6 | |
| Associate degree | 28,857 | 5.6 | Asia | 21,073 | 39.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 92,487 | 18.1 | Africa | 5,422 | 10.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 63,854 | 12.5 | Oceania | 183 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 9,474 | 17.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.3 | (X) | Northern America | 1,195 | 2.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 30.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 709,509 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 605,902 | 100.0 | English only | 641,282 | 90.4 | |
| Never married | 166,937 | 27.6 | Language other than English | 68,227 | 9.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 320,923 | 53.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25,526 | 3.6 | |
| Separated | 16,777 | 2.8 | Spanish | 16,694 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 46,773 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,991 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 38,405 | 6.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 30,877 | 4.4 | |
| Divorced | 54,492 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10,768 | 1.5 | |
| Female | 33,276 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14,304 | 2.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,362 | 1.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 754,292 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 15,273 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 818,570 | 108.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6,087 | 39.9 | Arab | 2,652 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 7,188 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,312 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 575,336 | 100.0 | Dutch | 8,263 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 77,211 | 13.4 | English | 71,030 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 13,955 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,567 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 166,176 | 22.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 161,433 | 100.0 | Greek | 6,558 | 0.9 | |
| With a disability | 13,370 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 3,303 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 433,820 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 110,433 | 14.6 | |
| With a disability | 73,758 | 17.0 | Italian | 53,637 | 7.1 | |
| Percent employed | 63.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 4,142 | 0.5 | |
| No disability | 360,062 | 83.0 | Norwegian | 2,805 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 81.9 | (X) | Polish | 46,456 | 6.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 106,664 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 819 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 40,666 | 38.1 | Russian | 17,382 | 2.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 9,296 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 11,709 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,873 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 709,509 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 10,742 | 1.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 412,437 | 58.1 | Swedish | 3,698 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 282,693 | 39.8 | Swiss | 1,086 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 130,282 | 18.4 | Ukrainian | 4,603 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 152,411 | 21.5 | United States or American | 38,192 | 5.1 | |
| Same state | 109,694 | 15.5 | Welsh | 6,173 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 42,717 | 6.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5,454 | 0.7 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 14,379 | 2.0 | Other ancestries | 207,066 | 27.5 | |
| 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)
