
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greene 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 | 13,299 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,768 | 100.0 | Native | 13,259 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 165 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 13,237 | 99.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 138 | 5.0 | State of residence | 10,370 | 78.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,435 | 51.8 | Different state | 2,867 | 21.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 719 | 26.0 | Born outside United States | 22 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 311 | 11.2 | Foreign born | 40 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 17 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 15 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,352 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 813 | 9.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,913 | 22.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,174 | 38.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 40 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,460 | 17.5 | Europe | 13 | 32.5 | |
| Associate degree | 327 | 3.9 | Asia | 6 | 15.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 442 | 5.3 | Africa | 4 | 10.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 223 | 2.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 17 | 42.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,366 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,634 | 100.0 | English only | 12,044 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 3,034 | 28.5 | Language other than English | 322 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,698 | 53.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 130 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 220 | 2.1 | Spanish | 198 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 696 | 6.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 100 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 582 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 101 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 986 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 340 | 3.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,299 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 261 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,100 | 68.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 168 | 64.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 14 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,071 | 100.0 | Dutch | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,080 | 10.7 | English | 550 | 4.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 115 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 10 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 255 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,752 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 221 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,163 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 593 | 4.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,528 | 24.8 | Italian | 65 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 36.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,635 | 75.2 | Norwegian | 38 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 68.4 | (X) | Polish | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,244 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 796 | 64.0 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 184 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 227 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,366 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 131 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,483 | 60.5 | Swedish | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,726 | 38.2 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,571 | 12.7 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,155 | 25.5 | United States or American | 3,302 | 24.8 | |
| Same state | 2,435 | 19.7 | Welsh | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 720 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 157 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 3,531 | 26.6 | |
| 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)

