
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Putnam 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 | 34,726 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,685 | 100.0 | Native | 34,479 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 614 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 34,422 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 564 | 5.8 | State of residence | 31,595 | 91.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,821 | 49.8 | Different state | 2,827 | 8.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,471 | 25.5 | Born outside United States | 57 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,215 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 247 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 58 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 164 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 21,524 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 83 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,077 | 5.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,912 | 8.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,266 | 47.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 247 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,437 | 16.0 | Europe | 45 | 18.2 | |
| Associate degree | 2,052 | 9.5 | Asia | 57 | 23.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,934 | 9.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 846 | 3.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 116 | 47.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.1 | (X) | Northern America | 29 | 11.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 32,195 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 26,261 | 100.0 | English only | 30,731 | 95.5 | |
| Never married | 6,122 | 23.3 | Language other than English | 1,464 | 4.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 16,579 | 63.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 448 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 167 | 0.6 | Spanish | 1,008 | 3.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,758 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 319 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 1,490 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 352 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 1,635 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 83 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 823 | 3.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 97 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 41 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 34,726 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 275 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 32,644 | 94.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 125 | 45.5 | Arab | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 66 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,420 | 100.0 | Dutch | 543 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,574 | 10.5 | English | 1,157 | 3.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 715 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 121 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 19,786 | 57.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,134 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 505 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 83 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,395 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,085 | 6.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,565 | 13.9 | Italian | 289 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 66.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 15,830 | 86.1 | Norwegian | 106 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 84.4 | (X) | Polish | 299 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,338 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,626 | 37.5 | Russian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 219 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 305 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 16 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 32,195 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 23,111 | 71.8 | Swedish | 119 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,016 | 28.0 | Swiss | 710 | 2.0 | |
| Same county | 6,194 | 19.2 | Ukrainian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,822 | 8.8 | United States or American | 2,911 | 8.4 | |
| Same state | 2,250 | 7.0 | Welsh | 454 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 572 | 1.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 68 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 2,590 | 7.5 | |
| 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)

