
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Queen Anne'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 | 40,563 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,899 | 100.0 | Native | 39,591 | 97.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 645 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 39,237 | 96.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 616 | 6.2 | State of residence | 25,839 | 63.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,828 | 48.8 | Different state | 13,398 | 33.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,270 | 22.9 | Born outside United States | 354 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,540 | 15.6 | Foreign born | 972 | 2.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 332 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 515 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 28,018 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 457 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,182 | 4.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,258 | 11.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,462 | 30.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 972 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,272 | 22.4 | Europe | 319 | 32.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,721 | 6.1 | Asia | 292 | 30.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,606 | 16.4 | Africa | 45 | 4.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,517 | 9.0 | Oceania | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 237 | 24.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.2 | (X) | Northern America | 76 | 7.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 25.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 37,981 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 31,974 | 100.0 | English only | 36,301 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 6,228 | 19.5 | Language other than English | 1,680 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 20,191 | 63.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 562 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 754 | 2.4 | Spanish | 576 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 2,001 | 6.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 216 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,570 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 872 | 2.3 | |
| Divorced | 2,800 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 235 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,437 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 212 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 106 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 40,563 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 801 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 41,778 | 103.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 303 | 37.8 | Arab | 105 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 260 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 34 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 30,258 | 100.0 | Dutch | 507 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,654 | 15.4 | English | 6,245 | 15.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 832 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 292 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,082 | 19.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,692 | 100.0 | Greek | 177 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 662 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 178 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 23,787 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,999 | 17.3 | |
| With a disability | 4,100 | 17.2 | Italian | 2,150 | 5.3 | |
| Percent employed | 65.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 193 | 0.5 | |
| No disability | 19,687 | 82.8 | Norwegian | 237 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 83.6 | (X) | Polish | 1,433 | 3.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,012 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 27 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,679 | 33.5 | Russian | 203 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 835 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,046 | 2.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 83 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 37,981 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 260 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 21,471 | 56.5 | Swedish | 390 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,183 | 42.6 | Swiss | 105 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 6,244 | 16.4 | Ukrainian | 75 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 9,939 | 26.2 | United States or American | 4,723 | 11.6 | |
| Same state | 7,351 | 19.4 | Welsh | 444 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 2,588 | 6.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 80 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 327 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 5,783 | 14.3 | |
| 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)

