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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lawrence 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 13,258 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,493 100.0   Native 13,178 99.4
Nursery school, preschool 227 6.5       Born in United States 13,142 99.1
Kindergarten 252 7.2           State of residence 10,992 82.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,627 46.6           Different state 2,150 16.2
High school (grades 9-12) 929 26.6       Born outside United States 36 0.3
College or graduate school 458 13.1   Foreign born 80 0.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 20 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 48 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 8,394 100.0       Not a citizen 32 0.2
Less than 9th grade 740 8.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,531 18.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,867 34.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 80 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,671 19.9   Europe 30 37.5
Associate degree 580 6.9   Asia 33 41.3
Bachelor's degree 735 8.8   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 270 3.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 15 18.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 72.9 (X)   Northern America 2 2.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 12,356 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 10,323 100.0   English only 12,105 98.0
Never married 2,182 21.1   Language other than English 251 2.0
Now married, except separated 6,018 58.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 57 0.5
Separated 259 2.5   Spanish 131 1.1
Widowed 987 9.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 35 0.3
 Female 793 7.7   Other Indo-European languages 105 0.8
Divorced 877 8.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 17 0.1
 Female 484 4.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 10 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 13,258 100.0
           under 18 years 414 100.0     Total ancestries reported 9,475 71.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 290 70.0   Arab 2 0.0
        Czech¹ 8 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 5 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 9,590 100.0   Dutch 75 0.6
Civilian veterans 1,175 12.3   English 767 5.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 189 1.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 100 0.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 297 2.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 3,300 100.0   Greek 1 0.0
With a disability 282 8.5   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 7,268 100.0   Irish¹ 847 6.4
With a disability 1,952 26.9   Italian 48 0.4
 Percent employed 42.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 5,316 73.1   Norwegian 22 0.2
 Percent employed 69.4 (X)   Polish 18 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 1,669 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 949 56.9   Russian 1 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 172 1.3
        Scottish 55 0.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 12,356 100.0   Subsaharan African 88 0.7
Same house in 1995 8,428 68.2   Swedish 2 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,853 31.2   Swiss 3 0.0
 Same county 2,106 17.0   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 1,747 14.1   United States or American 2,117 16.0
  Same state 1,017 8.2   Welsh 24 0.2
  Different state 730 5.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 75 0.6   Other ancestries 4,634 35.0
 
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.
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