
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Caswell 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 | 23,501 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,432 | 100.0 | Native | 23,123 | 98.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 288 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 23,023 | 98.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 302 | 5.6 | State of residence | 15,391 | 65.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,716 | 50.0 | Different state | 7,632 | 32.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,340 | 24.7 | Born outside United States | 100 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 786 | 14.5 | Foreign born | 378 | 1.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 177 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 113 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,212 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 265 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,764 | 10.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,234 | 19.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,953 | 36.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 378 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,823 | 17.4 | Europe | 59 | 15.6 | |
| Associate degree | 1,095 | 6.8 | Asia | 29 | 7.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 971 | 6.0 | Africa | 36 | 9.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 372 | 2.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 229 | 60.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.2 | (X) | Northern America | 25 | 6.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 22,133 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,905 | 100.0 | English only | 21,302 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 4,250 | 22.5 | Language other than English | 831 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,795 | 57.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 294 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 692 | 3.7 | Spanish | 551 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,673 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 249 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 1,421 | 7.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 190 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,495 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 670 | 3.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 62 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 23,501 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 469 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,689 | 71.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 171 | 36.5 | Arab | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 17 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,017 | 100.0 | Dutch | 124 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,195 | 12.2 | English | 1,418 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 161 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 46 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 954 | 4.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,835 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 565 | 11.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,106 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,074 | 4.6 | |
| With a disability | 3,671 | 28.0 | Italian | 154 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 54.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,435 | 72.0 | Norwegian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 76.7 | (X) | Polish | 56 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,073 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,455 | 47.3 | Russian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 379 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 200 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 9 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 22,133 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 122 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,784 | 66.8 | Swedish | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,185 | 32.5 | Swiss | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,559 | 11.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,626 | 20.9 | United States or American | 3,441 | 14.6 | |
| Same state | 3,193 | 14.4 | Welsh | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 1,433 | 6.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 164 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 8,394 | 35.7 | |
| 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)

