DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Burlington 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 | 423,394 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 111,053 | 100.0 | Native | 396,713 | 93.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 8,899 | 8.0 | Born in United States | 389,144 | 91.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 6,101 | 5.5 | State of residence | 216,207 | 51.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 51,033 | 46.0 | Different state | 172,937 | 40.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 24,880 | 22.4 | Born outside United States | 7,569 | 1.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 20,140 | 18.1 | Foreign born | 26,681 | 6.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 8,538 | 2.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 15,591 | 3.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 285,553 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 11,090 | 2.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 9,564 | 3.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 27,095 | 9.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 88,884 | 31.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 26,681 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 59,300 | 20.8 | Europe | 9,032 | 33.9 | |
| Associate degree | 19,642 | 6.9 | Asia | 9,799 | 36.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 54,721 | 19.2 | Africa | 1,340 | 5.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 26,347 | 9.2 | Oceania | 77 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 5,543 | 20.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.2 | (X) | Northern America | 890 | 3.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 28.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 396,629 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 334,883 | 100.0 | English only | 355,616 | 89.7 | |
| Never married | 82,710 | 24.7 | Language other than English | 41,013 | 10.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 195,748 | 58.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14,158 | 3.6 | |
| Separated | 7,557 | 2.3 | Spanish | 15,483 | 3.9 | |
| Widowed | 22,409 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,066 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 18,287 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 16,691 | 4.2 | |
| Divorced | 26,459 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,144 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 15,850 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6,921 | 1.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,505 | 0.9 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 423,394 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 8,584 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 508,488 | 120.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,176 | 37.0 | Arab | 1,226 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,946 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,253 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 311,590 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5,254 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 46,592 | 15.0 | English | 45,760 | 10.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 9,081 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,358 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 81,041 | 19.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 91,533 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,168 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 7,040 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 6,281 | 1.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 237,341 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 89,764 | 21.2 | |
| With a disability | 35,010 | 14.8 | Italian | 69,170 | 16.3 | |
| Percent employed | 63.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2,389 | 0.6 | |
| No disability | 202,331 | 85.2 | Norwegian | 2,674 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 81.5 | (X) | Polish | 29,867 | 7.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 50,430 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,427 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 18,148 | 36.0 | Russian | 6,644 | 1.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,927 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 6,691 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2,114 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 396,629 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,442 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 238,001 | 60.0 | Swedish | 3,844 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 151,533 | 38.2 | Swiss | 874 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 75,728 | 19.1 | Ukrainian | 2,890 | 0.7 | |
| Different county | 75,805 | 19.1 | United States or American | 15,267 | 3.6 | |
| Same state | 36,988 | 9.3 | Welsh | 3,360 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 38,817 | 9.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3,120 | 0.7 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 7,095 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 103,656 | 24.5 | |
| 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)
