DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Wilson 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 | 73,814 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 18,243 | 100.0 | Native | 70,178 | 95.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,036 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 69,888 | 94.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,117 | 6.1 | State of residence | 59,256 | 80.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,520 | 46.7 | Different state | 10,632 | 14.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,360 | 23.9 | Born outside United States | 290 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,210 | 17.6 | Foreign born | 3,636 | 4.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,607 | 3.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 731 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 48,061 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,905 | 3.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,650 | 11.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,042 | 18.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 15,258 | 31.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3,636 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 8,412 | 17.5 | Europe | 103 | 2.8 | |
| Associate degree | 2,459 | 5.1 | Asia | 418 | 11.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,362 | 11.2 | Africa | 59 | 1.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,878 | 3.9 | Oceania | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 3,019 | 83.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.4 | (X) | Northern America | 28 | 0.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 68,861 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 58,213 | 100.0 | English only | 63,284 | 91.9 | |
| Never married | 15,772 | 27.1 | Language other than English | 5,577 | 8.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 29,935 | 51.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,627 | 5.3 | |
| Separated | 2,618 | 4.5 | Spanish | 4,762 | 6.9 | |
| Widowed | 4,838 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,336 | 4.8 | |
| Female | 4,107 | 7.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 533 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 5,050 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 159 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 2,873 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 180 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 72 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 73,814 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,911 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 56,130 | 76.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,026 | 53.7 | Arab | 211 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 40 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 15 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 54,960 | 100.0 | Dutch | 224 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,233 | 11.3 | English | 5,056 | 6.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 435 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 81 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,270 | 3.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 16,855 | 100.0 | Greek | 101 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,816 | 10.8 | Hungarian | 28 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 42,056 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,606 | 3.5 | |
| With a disability | 12,181 | 29.0 | Italian | 650 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 57.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 29,875 | 71.0 | Norwegian | 145 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 75.5 | (X) | Polish | 182 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,819 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 41 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,364 | 49.5 | Russian | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 960 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 850 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 33 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 68,861 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 439 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 38,302 | 55.6 | Swedish | 60 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 29,079 | 42.2 | Swiss | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 19,395 | 28.2 | Ukrainian | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 9,684 | 14.1 | United States or American | 11,457 | 15.5 | |
| Same state | 5,767 | 8.4 | Welsh | 134 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 3,917 | 5.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 89 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,480 | 2.1 | Other ancestries | 29,916 | 40.5 | |
| 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)
