DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Nassau 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 | 1,334,544 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 357,675 | 100.0 | Native | 1,096,130 | 82.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 30,116 | 8.4 | Born in United States | 1,082,922 | 81.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 18,738 | 5.2 | State of residence | 993,263 | 74.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 152,970 | 42.8 | Different state | 89,659 | 6.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 74,476 | 20.8 | Born outside United States | 13,208 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 81,375 | 22.8 | Foreign born | 238,414 | 17.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 66,022 | 4.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 132,767 | 9.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 908,693 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 105,647 | 7.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 47,776 | 5.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 72,962 | 8.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 243,454 | 26.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 238,414 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 159,684 | 17.6 | Europe | 62,137 | 26.1 | |
| Associate degree | 63,496 | 7.0 | Asia | 58,513 | 24.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 179,685 | 19.8 | Africa | 5,088 | 2.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 141,636 | 15.6 | Oceania | 349 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 110,232 | 46.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2,095 | 0.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 35.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,248,676 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,058,616 | 100.0 | English only | 959,465 | 76.8 | |
| Never married | 272,358 | 25.7 | Language other than English | 289,211 | 23.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 627,727 | 59.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 111,910 | 9.0 | |
| Separated | 19,363 | 1.8 | Spanish | 115,039 | 9.2 | |
| Widowed | 80,537 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 57,053 | 4.6 | |
| Female | 66,054 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 124,652 | 10.0 | |
| Divorced | 58,631 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 36,705 | 2.9 | |
| Female | 37,125 | 3.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 36,354 | 2.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15,519 | 1.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 1,334,544 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 31,598 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,525,119 | 114.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6,776 | 21.4 | Arab | 6,397 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 7,088 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2,542 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,005,924 | 100.0 | Dutch | 6,773 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 107,156 | 10.7 | English | 45,699 | 3.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 15,396 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,591 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 154,919 | 11.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 285,031 | 100.0 | Greek | 20,864 | 1.6 | |
| With a disability | 17,059 | 6.0 | Hungarian | 13,767 | 1.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 760,177 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 233,490 | 17.5 | |
| With a disability | 118,176 | 15.5 | Italian | 319,602 | 23.9 | |
| Percent employed | 64.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5,228 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 642,001 | 84.5 | Norwegian | 7,795 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 77.0 | (X) | Polish | 74,782 | 5.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 193,508 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6,217 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 60,851 | 31.4 | Russian | 60,507 | 4.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 8,224 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 9,976 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,808 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,248,676 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6,485 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 872,666 | 69.9 | Swedish | 8,575 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 349,170 | 28.0 | Swiss | 2,343 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 205,814 | 16.5 | Ukrainian | 7,464 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 143,356 | 11.5 | United States or American | 59,006 | 4.4 | |
| Same state | 119,535 | 9.6 | Welsh | 2,165 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 23,821 | 1.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 43,739 | 3.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 26,840 | 2.1 | Other ancestries | 390,677 | 29.3 | |
| 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)
