
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Gallia 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 | 31,069 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,742 | 100.0 | Native | 30,820 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 361 | 4.7 | Born in United States | 30,726 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 404 | 5.2 | State of residence | 20,982 | 67.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,573 | 46.2 | Different state | 9,744 | 31.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,910 | 24.7 | Born outside United States | 94 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,494 | 19.3 | Foreign born | 249 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 78 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 154 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 20,207 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 95 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,828 | 9.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,478 | 17.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,424 | 41.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 249 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,040 | 15.0 | Europe | 83 | 33.3 | |
| Associate degree | 1,085 | 5.4 | Asia | 140 | 56.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,421 | 7.0 | Africa | 8 | 3.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 931 | 4.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 10 | 4.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.7 | (X) | Northern America | 8 | 3.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 29,123 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 24,761 | 100.0 | English only | 28,237 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 5,366 | 21.7 | Language other than English | 886 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 14,372 | 58.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 322 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 388 | 1.6 | Spanish | 326 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,972 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 109 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,687 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 428 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 2,663 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 171 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,522 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 116 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 31,069 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 584 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,638 | 69.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 271 | 46.4 | Arab | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 48 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 16 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 23,293 | 100.0 | Dutch | 532 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,068 | 13.2 | English | 2,297 | 7.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 368 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 45 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,013 | 12.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,423 | 100.0 | Greek | 22 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 802 | 10.8 | Hungarian | 86 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 17,307 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,658 | 8.6 | |
| With a disability | 4,530 | 26.2 | Italian | 556 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 38.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,777 | 73.8 | Norwegian | 52 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 70.7 | (X) | Polish | 281 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,891 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,964 | 50.5 | Russian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 461 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 309 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 17 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 29,123 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 57 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 17,985 | 61.8 | Swedish | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,079 | 38.0 | Swiss | 90 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 7,406 | 25.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,673 | 12.6 | United States or American | 5,480 | 17.6 | |
| Same state | 2,314 | 7.9 | Welsh | 564 | 1.8 | |
| Different state | 1,359 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 59 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 3,623 | 11.7 | |
| 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)

