DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kent 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 | 574,335 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 165,304 | 100.0 | Native | 536,181 | 93.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 10,890 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 531,606 | 92.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 9,800 | 5.9 | State of residence | 434,280 | 75.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 74,011 | 44.8 | Different state | 97,326 | 16.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 36,572 | 22.1 | Born outside United States | 4,575 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 34,031 | 20.6 | Foreign born | 38,154 | 6.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 22,299 | 3.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 12,040 | 2.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 351,875 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 26,114 | 4.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 16,001 | 4.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 38,147 | 10.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 99,420 | 28.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 38,154 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 80,393 | 22.8 | Europe | 8,411 | 22.0 | |
| Associate degree | 27,076 | 7.7 | Asia | 9,454 | 24.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 61,488 | 17.5 | Africa | 1,125 | 2.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 29,350 | 8.3 | Oceania | 63 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 17,358 | 45.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.6 | (X) | Northern America | 1,743 | 4.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 25.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 530,219 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 438,842 | 100.0 | English only | 476,293 | 89.8 | |
| Never married | 129,245 | 29.5 | Language other than English | 53,926 | 10.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 237,584 | 54.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25,944 | 4.9 | |
| Separated | 5,764 | 1.3 | Spanish | 31,787 | 6.0 | |
| Widowed | 23,668 | 5.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16,415 | 3.1 | |
| Female | 19,421 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 12,380 | 2.3 | |
| Divorced | 42,581 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,208 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 24,586 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7,220 | 1.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,366 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 574,335 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 7,254 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 648,902 | 113.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,169 | 43.7 | Arab | 3,716 | 0.6 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,416 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4,314 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 411,887 | 100.0 | Dutch | 113,093 | 19.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 45,535 | 11.1 | English | 58,240 | 10.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 20,923 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6,203 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 110,610 | 19.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 143,915 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,804 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 12,738 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 2,214 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 324,050 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 61,957 | 10.8 | |
| With a disability | 51,305 | 15.8 | Italian | 15,241 | 2.7 | |
| Percent employed | 63.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3,805 | 0.7 | |
| No disability | 272,745 | 84.2 | Norwegian | 5,526 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 81.9 | (X) | Polish | 45,588 | 7.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 55,880 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 282 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 21,261 | 38.0 | Russian | 2,328 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 7,642 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 9,350 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 552 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 530,219 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3,652 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 277,682 | 52.4 | Swedish | 12,292 | 2.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 238,236 | 44.9 | Swiss | 1,650 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 160,309 | 30.2 | Ukrainian | 1,190 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 77,927 | 14.7 | United States or American | 26,262 | 4.6 | |
| Same state | 45,991 | 8.7 | Welsh | 2,853 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 31,936 | 6.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 516 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 14,301 | 2.7 | Other ancestries | 124,683 | 21.7 | |
| 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)
