DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kings 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 | 2,465,326 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 731,672 | 100.0 | Native | 1,533,557 | 62.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 45,137 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 1,428,116 | 57.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 40,917 | 5.6 | State of residence | 1,227,839 | 49.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 305,478 | 41.8 | Different state | 200,277 | 8.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 165,930 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 105,441 | 4.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 174,210 | 23.8 | Foreign born | 931,769 | 37.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 411,103 | 16.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 439,973 | 17.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,552,870 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 491,796 | 19.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 203,190 | 13.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 281,116 | 18.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 414,868 | 26.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 931,764 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 225,716 | 14.5 | Europe | 238,383 | 25.6 | |
| Associate degree | 88,730 | 5.7 | Asia | 183,909 | 19.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 202,103 | 13.0 | Africa | 23,588 | 2.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 137,147 | 8.8 | Oceania | 829 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 480,520 | 51.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.8 | (X) | Northern America | 4,535 | 0.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,285,223 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,911,722 | 100.0 | English only | 1,217,121 | 53.3 | |
| Never married | 712,117 | 37.3 | Language other than English | 1,068,102 | 46.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 833,970 | 43.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 547,063 | 23.9 | |
| Separated | 87,216 | 4.6 | Spanish | 411,346 | 18.0 | |
| Widowed | 141,134 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 197,017 | 8.6 | |
| Female | 116,741 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 456,601 | 20.0 | |
| Divorced | 137,285 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 233,245 | 10.2 | |
| Female | 89,210 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 133,776 | 5.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 93,649 | 4.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,465,326 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 77,554 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,257,431 | 91.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 29,285 | 37.8 | Arab | 35,739 | 1.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,976 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,547 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,805,709 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,827 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 90,588 | 5.0 | English | 23,018 | 0.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 9,353 | 0.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,547 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 39,647 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 583,131 | 100.0 | Greek | 13,639 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 57,527 | 9.9 | Hungarian | 16,763 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,411,529 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 81,013 | 3.3 | |
| With a disability | 406,596 | 28.8 | Italian | 183,868 | 7.5 | |
| Percent employed | 51.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3,172 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 1,004,933 | 71.2 | Norwegian | 7,345 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 64.7 | (X) | Polish | 71,842 | 2.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 274,328 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2,050 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 139,693 | 50.9 | Russian | 93,742 | 3.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,252 | 0.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 6,257 | 0.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,720 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,285,223 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 38,363 | 1.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,436,657 | 62.9 | Swedish | 4,376 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 688,260 | 30.1 | Swiss | 1,244 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 522,749 | 22.9 | Ukrainian | 37,771 | 1.5 | |
| Different county | 165,511 | 7.2 | United States or American | 90,078 | 3.7 | |
| Same state | 102,633 | 4.5 | Welsh | 1,647 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 62,878 | 2.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 283,749 | 11.5 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 160,306 | 7.0 | Other ancestries | 1,194,886 | 48.5 | |
| 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
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