
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Putnam 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 | 95,745 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 25,652 | 100.0 | Native | 87,325 | 91.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,085 | 8.1 | Born in United States | 86,485 | 90.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,357 | 5.3 | State of residence | 74,916 | 78.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 11,876 | 46.3 | Different state | 11,569 | 12.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,634 | 22.0 | Born outside United States | 840 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,700 | 18.3 | Foreign born | 8,420 | 8.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,464 | 2.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,356 | 4.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 64,624 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4,064 | 4.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,125 | 3.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,236 | 6.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 18,151 | 28.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 8,420 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 13,560 | 21.0 | Europe | 4,786 | 56.8 | |
| Associate degree | 4,661 | 7.2 | Asia | 1,003 | 11.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 12,771 | 19.8 | Africa | 89 | 1.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 9,120 | 14.1 | Oceania | 24 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 2,278 | 27.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.2 | (X) | Northern America | 240 | 2.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 33.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 89,138 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 74,574 | 100.0 | English only | 77,373 | 86.8 | |
| Never married | 17,819 | 23.9 | Language other than English | 11,765 | 13.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 46,831 | 62.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,074 | 4.6 | |
| Separated | 1,212 | 1.6 | Spanish | 4,582 | 5.1 | |
| Widowed | 3,996 | 5.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,888 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 3,143 | 4.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 6,147 | 6.9 | |
| Divorced | 4,716 | 6.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,856 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 2,812 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 610 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 225 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 95,745 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,711 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 118,383 | 123.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 334 | 19.5 | Arab | 431 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 823 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 257 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 70,544 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,392 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 7,868 | 11.2 | English | 6,430 | 6.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,040 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 679 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 15,048 | 15.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 21,050 | 100.0 | Greek | 880 | 0.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,449 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 992 | 1.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 58,583 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 25,880 | 27.0 | |
| With a disability | 8,259 | 14.1 | Italian | 30,441 | 31.8 | |
| Percent employed | 64.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 248 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 50,324 | 85.9 | Norwegian | 879 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 79.5 | (X) | Polish | 4,905 | 5.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 9,064 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 638 | 0.7 | |
| With a disability | 3,151 | 34.8 | Russian | 2,363 | 2.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,293 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,727 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 666 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 89,138 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 82 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 57,297 | 64.3 | Swedish | 1,450 | 1.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 30,248 | 33.9 | Swiss | 387 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 10,445 | 11.7 | Ukrainian | 500 | 0.5 | |
| Different county | 19,803 | 22.2 | United States or American | 3,563 | 3.7 | |
| Same state | 16,656 | 18.7 | Welsh | 335 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 3,147 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 400 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,593 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 13,654 | 14.3 | |
| 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)

