
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Carroll 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 | 10,285 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,272 | 100.0 | Native | 10,239 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 178 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 10,217 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 127 | 5.6 | State of residence | 8,649 | 84.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,225 | 53.9 | Different state | 1,568 | 15.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 569 | 25.0 | Born outside United States | 22 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 173 | 7.6 | Foreign born | 46 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 42 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,945 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 531 | 7.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 920 | 13.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,223 | 46.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 46 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,116 | 16.1 | Europe | 36 | 78.3 | |
| Associate degree | 180 | 2.6 | Asia | 4 | 8.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 664 | 9.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 311 | 4.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 6 | 13.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.1 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,640 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,160 | 100.0 | English only | 9,298 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 1,331 | 16.3 | Language other than English | 342 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,156 | 63.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 127 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 110 | 1.3 | Spanish | 92 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 838 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 711 | 8.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 239 | 2.5 | |
| Divorced | 725 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 113 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 391 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,285 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 131 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,798 | 85.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 46 | 35.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,701 | 100.0 | Dutch | 176 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,100 | 14.3 | English | 1,093 | 10.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 301 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 32 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,678 | 26.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,299 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 188 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,231 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,001 | 9.7 | |
| With a disability | 996 | 19.0 | Italian | 51 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 61.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,235 | 81.0 | Norwegian | 85 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 81.8 | (X) | Polish | 54 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,923 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 859 | 44.7 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 183 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 186 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,640 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,119 | 63.5 | Swedish | 96 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,513 | 36.4 | Swiss | 105 | 1.0 | |
| Same county | 2,278 | 23.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,235 | 12.8 | United States or American | 1,729 | 16.8 | |
| Same state | 843 | 8.7 | Welsh | 92 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 392 | 4.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 8 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 908 | 8.8 | |
| 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)

