
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Morgan 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 | 19,309 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,916 | 100.0 | Native | 19,112 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 241 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 19,015 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 226 | 5.8 | State of residence | 12,635 | 65.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,129 | 54.4 | Different state | 6,380 | 33.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 935 | 23.9 | Born outside United States | 97 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 385 | 9.8 | Foreign born | 197 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 106 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 55 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,466 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 142 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,334 | 9.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,098 | 15.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,472 | 40.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 197 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,595 | 19.3 | Europe | 128 | 65.0 | |
| Associate degree | 522 | 3.9 | Asia | 20 | 10.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,003 | 7.4 | Africa | 28 | 14.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 442 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 4 | 2.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.5 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 8.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 18,161 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 15,535 | 100.0 | English only | 16,910 | 93.1 | |
| Never married | 2,436 | 15.7 | Language other than English | 1,251 | 6.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,969 | 64.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 639 | 3.5 | |
| Separated | 212 | 1.4 | Spanish | 189 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,382 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 61 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,099 | 7.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,047 | 5.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,536 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 572 | 3.1 | |
| Female | 799 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 19,309 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 292 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,718 | 86.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 134 | 45.9 | Arab | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 39 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 24 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 14,699 | 100.0 | Dutch | 658 | 3.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,730 | 18.6 | English | 2,026 | 10.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 554 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 115 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,428 | 22.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,036 | 100.0 | Greek | 19 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 348 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 50 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,305 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,016 | 10.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,924 | 28.4 | Italian | 301 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 56.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,381 | 71.6 | Norwegian | 104 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 74.6 | (X) | Polish | 232 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,656 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,686 | 46.1 | Russian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 463 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 286 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 18,161 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,157 | 55.9 | Swedish | 136 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,898 | 43.5 | Swiss | 328 | 1.7 | |
| Same county | 3,075 | 16.9 | Ukrainian | 126 | 0.7 | |
| Different county | 4,823 | 26.6 | United States or American | 2,634 | 13.6 | |
| Same state | 2,938 | 16.2 | Welsh | 162 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,885 | 10.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 106 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 1,934 | 10.0 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

