DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Northampton 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 | 22,086 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,438 | 100.0 | Native | 21,924 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 362 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 21,837 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 312 | 5.7 | State of residence | 17,189 | 77.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,662 | 49.0 | Different state | 4,648 | 21.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,369 | 25.2 | Born outside United States | 87 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 733 | 13.5 | Foreign born | 162 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 92 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 66 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,199 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 96 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,160 | 14.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,545 | 23.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,775 | 31.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 162 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,223 | 14.6 | Europe | 48 | 29.6 | |
| Associate degree | 852 | 5.6 | Asia | 41 | 25.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,286 | 8.5 | Africa | 3 | 1.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 358 | 2.4 | Oceania | 2 | 1.2 | |
| Latin America | 61 | 37.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 62.5 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 4.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,838 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 17,623 | 100.0 | English only | 20,292 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 4,695 | 26.6 | Language other than English | 546 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,725 | 49.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 218 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 743 | 4.2 | Spanish | 289 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,984 | 11.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 105 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,626 | 9.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 185 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,476 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 94 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 726 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 55 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,086 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 886 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,334 | 74.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 466 | 52.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 21 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,680 | 100.0 | Dutch | 103 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,796 | 10.8 | English | 1,255 | 5.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 145 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 10 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 473 | 2.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,810 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 582 | 12.1 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,494 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 538 | 2.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,747 | 32.6 | Italian | 70 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 45.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,747 | 67.4 | Norwegian | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 71.1 | (X) | Polish | 66 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,690 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 12 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,067 | 56.0 | Russian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 115 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 114 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,838 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 297 | 1.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,229 | 68.3 | Swedish | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,403 | 30.7 | Swiss | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 3,106 | 14.9 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,297 | 15.8 | United States or American | 2,222 | 10.1 | |
| Same state | 1,875 | 9.0 | Welsh | 42 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,422 | 6.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 206 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 10,752 | 48.7 | |
| 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
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