
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Montgomery 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 | 12,136 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,798 | 100.0 | Native | 11,986 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 165 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 11,934 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 183 | 6.5 | State of residence | 9,833 | 81.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,487 | 53.1 | Different state | 2,101 | 17.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 694 | 24.8 | Born outside United States | 52 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 269 | 9.6 | Foreign born | 150 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 87 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 100 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,182 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 50 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 959 | 11.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,402 | 17.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,396 | 41.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 150 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,300 | 15.9 | Europe | 47 | 31.3 | |
| Associate degree | 316 | 3.9 | Asia | 95 | 63.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 515 | 6.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 294 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 8 | 5.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.1 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,437 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,651 | 100.0 | English only | 11,143 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 1,957 | 20.3 | Language other than English | 294 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,524 | 57.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 124 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 154 | 1.6 | Spanish | 82 | 0.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,013 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 827 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 140 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,003 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 522 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 72 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 50 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,136 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 189 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,795 | 89.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 122 | 64.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 110 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,064 | 100.0 | Dutch | 226 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,440 | 15.9 | English | 1,283 | 10.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 486 | 4.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,857 | 31.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,800 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 256 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,445 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,308 | 10.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,309 | 20.3 | Italian | 180 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 56.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,136 | 79.7 | Norwegian | 41 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 79.8 | (X) | Polish | 161 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,866 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 806 | 43.2 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 158 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 106 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,437 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,912 | 60.4 | Swedish | 42 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,461 | 39.0 | Swiss | 48 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 2,210 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,251 | 19.7 | United States or American | 1,508 | 12.4 | |
| Same state | 1,763 | 15.4 | Welsh | 32 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 488 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 64 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 1,206 | 9.9 | |
| 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)

