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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Montgomery 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 49,708 100.0
      enrolled in school 11,609 100.0   Native 48,134 96.8
Nursery school, preschool 621 5.3       Born in United States 46,694 93.9
Kindergarten 709 6.1           State of residence 42,357 85.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 5,747 49.5           Different state 4,337 8.7
High school (grades 9-12) 3,076 26.5       Born outside United States 1,440 2.9
College or graduate school 1,456 12.5   Foreign born 1,574 3.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 393 0.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,157 2.3
  Population 25 years and over 33,900 100.0       Not a citizen 417 0.8
Less than 9th grade 2,252 6.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 5,174 15.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 13,277 39.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,574 100.0
Some college, no degree 5,396 15.9   Europe 805 51.1
Associate degree 3,195 9.4   Asia 258 16.4
Bachelor's degree 2,707 8.0   Africa 5 0.3
Graduate or professional degree 1,899 5.6   Oceania 3 0.2
        Latin America 444 28.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 78.1 (X)   Northern America 59 3.7
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 13.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 46,781 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 39,772 100.0   English only 41,700 89.1
Never married 9,972 25.1   Language other than English 5,081 10.9
Now married, except separated 20,769 52.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,859 4.0
Separated 1,336 3.4   Spanish 2,907 6.2
Widowed 4,179 10.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,155 2.5
 Female 3,419 8.6   Other Indo-European languages 1,957 4.2
Divorced 3,516 8.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 590 1.3
 Female 1,976 5.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 175 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 93 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 49,708 100.0
           under 18 years 594 100.0     Total ancestries reported 56,403 113.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 265 44.6   Arab 42 0.1
        Czech¹ 233 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 120 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 37,489 100.0   Dutch 2,808 5.6
Civilian veterans 5,469 14.6   English 4,255 8.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 2,390 4.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 799 1.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 9,428 19.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 10,809 100.0   Greek 144 0.3
With a disability 1,042 9.6   Hungarian 148 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 26,274 100.0   Irish¹ 6,667 13.4
With a disability 5,091 19.4   Italian 9,245 18.6
 Percent employed 55.6 (X)   Lithuanian 912 1.8
No disability 21,183 80.6   Norwegian 249 0.5
 Percent employed 78.6 (X)   Polish 6,946 14.0
     Population 65 years and over 8,718 100.0   Portuguese 68 0.1
With a disability 3,324 38.1   Russian 107 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 318 0.6
        Scottish 752 1.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 183 0.4
  Population 5 years and over 46,781 100.0   Subsaharan African 55 0.1
Same house in 1995 30,108 64.4   Swedish 292 0.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 16,401 35.1   Swiss 164 0.3
 Same county 11,018 23.6   Ukrainian 389 0.8
 Different county 5,383 11.5   United States or American 3,163 6.4
  Same state 4,377 9.4   Welsh 246 0.5
  Different state 1,006 2.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 33 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 272 0.6   Other ancestries 6,247 12.6
 
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.
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