
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Richland 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 | 9,667 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,399 | 100.0 | Native | 9,527 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 108 | 4.5 | Born in United States | 9,463 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 164 | 6.8 | State of residence | 5,902 | 61.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,290 | 53.8 | Different state | 3,561 | 36.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 675 | 28.1 | Born outside United States | 64 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 162 | 6.8 | Foreign born | 140 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 57 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 50 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,398 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 90 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 456 | 7.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 600 | 9.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,266 | 35.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 140 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,563 | 24.4 | Europe | 52 | 37.1 | |
| Associate degree | 413 | 6.5 | Asia | 2 | 1.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 899 | 14.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 201 | 3.1 | Oceania | 7 | 5.0 | |
| Latin America | 24 | 17.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.5 | (X) | Northern America | 55 | 39.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,063 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,551 | 100.0 | English only | 8,797 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 1,574 | 20.8 | Language other than English | 266 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,651 | 61.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 67 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 67 | 0.9 | Spanish | 120 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 641 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 517 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 142 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 618 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 45 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 310 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 9,667 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 113 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,854 | 122.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 76 | 67.3 | Arab | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 142 | 1.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 546 | 5.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,025 | 100.0 | Dutch | 213 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 878 | 12.5 | English | 838 | 8.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 388 | 4.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 111 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,614 | 37.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,329 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 116 | 5.0 | Hungarian | 28 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,221 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,102 | 11.4 | |
| With a disability | 842 | 16.1 | Italian | 268 | 2.8 | |
| Percent employed | 53.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 4,379 | 83.9 | Norwegian | 2,339 | 24.2 | |
| Percent employed | 81.5 | (X) | Polish | 116 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,421 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 526 | 37.0 | Russian | 119 | 1.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 197 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 165 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,063 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,844 | 64.5 | Swedish | 291 | 3.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,192 | 35.2 | Swiss | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,848 | 20.4 | Ukrainian | 41 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 1,344 | 14.8 | United States or American | 428 | 4.4 | |
| Same state | 680 | 7.5 | Welsh | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 664 | 7.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 27 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 831 | 8.6 | |
| 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)

