
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Seneca 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 | 33,342 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,433 | 100.0 | Native | 32,526 | 97.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 480 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 32,243 | 96.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 482 | 5.7 | State of residence | 27,174 | 81.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,107 | 48.7 | Different state | 5,069 | 15.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,821 | 21.6 | Born outside United States | 283 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,543 | 18.3 | Foreign born | 816 | 2.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 254 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 472 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,585 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 344 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,449 | 6.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,278 | 14.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,053 | 35.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 816 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,583 | 15.9 | Europe | 265 | 32.5 | |
| Associate degree | 2,274 | 10.1 | Asia | 183 | 22.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,377 | 10.5 | Africa | 4 | 0.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,571 | 7.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 115 | 14.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.1 | (X) | Northern America | 249 | 30.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 31,524 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 26,546 | 100.0 | English only | 29,814 | 94.6 | |
| Never married | 6,742 | 25.4 | Language other than English | 1,710 | 5.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 14,528 | 54.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 632 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 655 | 2.5 | Spanish | 491 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,103 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 110 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,633 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,041 | 3.3 | |
| Divorced | 2,518 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 424 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 1,372 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 166 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 95 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 33,342 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 330 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 37,222 | 111.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 128 | 38.8 | Arab | 132 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 135 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 327 | 1.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 25,031 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,090 | 6.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,595 | 14.4 | English | 5,526 | 16.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,380 | 4.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 382 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,638 | 19.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,392 | 100.0 | Greek | 83 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 615 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 102 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,141 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,676 | 17.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,350 | 18.5 | Italian | 5,599 | 16.8 | |
| Percent employed | 49.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 14,791 | 81.5 | Norwegian | 140 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 78.5 | (X) | Polish | 1,120 | 3.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,780 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,865 | 39.0 | Russian | 241 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 418 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 709 | 2.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 48 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 31,524 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 19,628 | 62.3 | Swedish | 354 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,674 | 37.0 | Swiss | 212 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 6,681 | 21.2 | Ukrainian | 193 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 4,993 | 15.8 | United States or American | 2,295 | 6.9 | |
| Same state | 3,500 | 11.1 | Welsh | 254 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,493 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 222 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 3,105 | 9.3 | |
| 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)

