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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Brunswick 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 73,143 100.0
      enrolled in school 14,593 100.0   Native 71,052 97.1
Nursery school, preschool 869 6.0       Born in United States 70,674 96.6
Kindergarten 838 5.7           State of residence 42,032 57.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 7,310 50.1           Different state 28,642 39.2
High school (grades 9-12) 3,514 24.1       Born outside United States 378 0.5
College or graduate school 2,062 14.1   Foreign born 2,091 2.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 999 1.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 744 1.0
  Population 25 years and over 52,605 100.0       Not a citizen 1,347 1.8
Less than 9th grade 3,337 6.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 8,098 15.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 17,482 33.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 2,091 100.0
Some college, no degree 11,821 22.5   Europe 628 30.0
Associate degree 3,417 6.5   Asia 121 5.8
Bachelor's degree 5,774 11.0   Africa 26 1.2
Graduate or professional degree 2,676 5.1   Oceania 8 0.4
        Latin America 1,195 57.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 78.3 (X)   Northern America 113 5.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 16.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 69,144 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 60,229 100.0   English only 65,810 95.2
Never married 10,870 18.0   Language other than English 3,334 4.8
Now married, except separated 37,388 62.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,487 2.2
Separated 1,709 2.8   Spanish 2,214 3.2
Widowed 4,394 7.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,163 1.7
 Female 3,528 5.9   Other Indo-European languages 933 1.3
Divorced 5,868 9.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 266 0.4
 Female 3,226 5.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 122 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 50 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 73,143 100.0
           under 18 years 1,437 100.0     Total ancestries reported 66,521 90.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 849 59.1   Arab 61 0.1
        Czech¹ 156 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 137 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 57,307 100.0   Dutch 986 1.3
Civilian veterans 10,976 19.2   English 10,388 14.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,653 2.3
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 288 0.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 7,350 10.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 13,669 100.0   Greek 170 0.2
With a disability 1,265 9.3   Hungarian 219 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 42,694 100.0   Irish¹ 7,464 10.2
With a disability 10,734 25.1   Italian 2,062 2.8
 Percent employed 53.0 (X)   Lithuanian 90 0.1
No disability 31,960 74.9   Norwegian 342 0.5
 Percent employed 72.2 (X)   Polish 1,096 1.5
     Population 65 years and over 12,155 100.0   Portuguese 85 0.1
With a disability 4,907 40.4   Russian 193 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 2,287 3.1
        Scottish 2,035 2.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 111 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 69,144 100.0   Subsaharan African 271 0.4
Same house in 1995 37,299 53.9   Swedish 447 0.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 31,002 44.8   Swiss 74 0.1
 Same county 11,758 17.0   Ukrainian 101 0.1
 Different county 19,244 27.8   United States or American 11,228 15.4
  Same state 9,190 13.3   Welsh 440 0.6
  Different state 10,054 14.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 35 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 843 1.2   Other ancestries 16,752 22.9
 
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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