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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cumberland 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 146,438 100.0
      enrolled in school 37,622 100.0   Native 137,431 93.8
Nursery school, preschool 2,646 7.0       Born in United States 128,614 87.8
Kindergarten 2,136 5.7           State of residence 98,698 67.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 18,449 49.0           Different state 29,916 20.4
High school (grades 9-12) 9,304 24.7       Born outside United States 8,817 6.0
College or graduate school 5,087 13.5   Foreign born 9,007 6.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 4,317 2.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 3,514 2.4
  Population 25 years and over 96,899 100.0       Not a citizen 5,493 3.8
Less than 9th grade 10,903 11.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 19,610 20.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 35,189 36.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 9,007 100.0
Some college, no degree 15,212 15.7   Europe 2,366 26.3
Associate degree 4,600 4.7   Asia 808 9.0
Bachelor's degree 7,820 8.1   Africa 45 0.5
Graduate or professional degree 3,565 3.7   Oceania 7 0.1
        Latin America 5,665 62.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 68.5 (X)   Northern America 116 1.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 137,590 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 115,577 100.0   English only 109,457 79.6
Never married 34,787 30.1   Language other than English 28,133 20.4
Now married, except separated 57,366 49.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 12,209 8.9
Separated 3,873 3.4   Spanish 22,898 16.6
Widowed 9,163 7.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 10,275 7.5
 Female 7,115 6.2   Other Indo-European languages 4,236 3.1
Divorced 10,388 9.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,493 1.1
 Female 5,617 4.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 608 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 292 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 146,438 100.0
           under 18 years 4,235 100.0     Total ancestries reported 146,205 99.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 1,658 39.1   Arab 65 0.0
        Czech¹ 422 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 129 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 109,230 100.0   Dutch 1,780 1.2
Civilian veterans 12,260 11.2   English 12,296 8.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 2,320 1.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 400 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 17,761 12.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 33,663 100.0   Greek 382 0.3
With a disability 3,466 10.3   Hungarian 697 0.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 75,700 100.0   Irish¹ 15,612 10.7
With a disability 17,676 23.4   Italian 22,881 15.6
 Percent employed 50.6 (X)   Lithuanian 229 0.2
No disability 58,024 76.6   Norwegian 407 0.3
 Percent employed 76.0 (X)   Polish 4,441 3.0
     Population 65 years and over 17,798 100.0   Portuguese 58 0.0
With a disability 8,255 46.4   Russian 1,321 0.9
        Scotch-Irish 1,191 0.8
        Scottish 1,320 0.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 136 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 137,590 100.0   Subsaharan African 1,204 0.8
Same house in 1995 83,769 60.9   Swedish 1,038 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 50,140 36.4   Swiss 214 0.1
 Same county 35,978 26.1   Ukrainian 1,390 0.9
 Different county 14,162 10.3   United States or American 5,350 3.7
  Same state 9,340 6.8   Welsh 779 0.5
  Different state 4,822 3.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 1,074 0.7
Elsewhere in 1995 3,681 2.7   Other ancestries 51,308 35.0
 
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.
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