DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Prince George's 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 | 801,515 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 249,844 | 100.0 | Native | 691,034 | 86.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 14,352 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 681,162 | 85.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 11,987 | 4.8 | State of residence | 185,486 | 23.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 102,016 | 40.8 | Different state | 495,676 | 61.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 48,827 | 19.5 | Born outside United States | 9,872 | 1.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 72,662 | 29.1 | Foreign born | 110,481 | 13.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 52,460 | 6.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 42,817 | 5.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 503,698 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 67,664 | 8.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 23,553 | 4.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 52,588 | 10.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 137,265 | 27.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 110,481 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 126,033 | 25.0 | Europe | 6,779 | 6.1 | |
| Associate degree | 27,471 | 5.5 | Asia | 25,363 | 23.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 85,325 | 16.9 | Africa | 22,562 | 20.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 51,463 | 10.2 | Oceania | 143 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 54,522 | 49.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.9 | (X) | Northern America | 1,112 | 1.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 27.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 743,851 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 619,339 | 100.0 | English only | 625,419 | 84.1 | |
| Never married | 217,451 | 35.1 | Language other than English | 118,432 | 15.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 286,903 | 46.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 53,743 | 7.2 | |
| Separated | 24,554 | 4.0 | Spanish | 56,436 | 7.6 | |
| Widowed | 32,881 | 5.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32,775 | 4.4 | |
| Female | 27,112 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 24,753 | 3.3 | |
| Divorced | 57,550 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,485 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 35,878 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 20,463 | 2.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,556 | 1.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 801,515 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 26,678 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 774,523 | 96.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 10,508 | 39.4 | Arab | 2,098 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,225 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 979 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 580,295 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,835 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 77,863 | 13.4 | English | 31,259 | 3.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 7,325 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,371 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 44,117 | 5.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 193,018 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,456 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 14,443 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 1,710 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 479,163 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 41,323 | 5.2 | |
| With a disability | 91,543 | 19.1 | Italian | 18,168 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 64.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 970 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 387,620 | 80.9 | Norwegian | 1,911 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 79.5 | (X) | Polish | 9,094 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 59,611 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,011 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 23,846 | 40.0 | Russian | 3,565 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,684 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,891 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,243 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 743,851 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 34,841 | 4.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 392,014 | 52.7 | Swedish | 2,420 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 321,370 | 43.2 | Swiss | 845 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 180,415 | 24.3 | Ukrainian | 1,200 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 140,955 | 18.9 | United States or American | 23,620 | 2.9 | |
| Same state | 39,524 | 5.3 | Welsh | 2,814 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 101,431 | 13.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 20,271 | 2.5 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 30,467 | 4.1 | Other ancestries | 503,277 | 62.8 | |
| 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)
