DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Vinton 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 | 12,806 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,146 | 100.0 | Native | 12,768 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 204 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 12,752 | 99.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 173 | 5.5 | State of residence | 10,758 | 84.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,658 | 52.7 | Different state | 1,994 | 15.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 815 | 25.9 | Born outside United States | 16 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 296 | 9.4 | Foreign born | 38 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 36 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,223 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 739 | 9.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,670 | 20.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,911 | 47.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 38 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,027 | 12.5 | Europe | 21 | 55.3 | |
| Associate degree | 380 | 4.6 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 319 | 3.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 177 | 2.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 12 | 31.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.7 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 13.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 6.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,872 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,904 | 100.0 | English only | 11,647 | 98.1 | |
| Never married | 2,006 | 20.3 | Language other than English | 225 | 1.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,783 | 58.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 56 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 203 | 2.0 | Spanish | 112 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 697 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 550 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 85 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,215 | 12.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 648 | 6.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,806 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 269 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,260 | 72.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 181 | 67.3 | Arab | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,332 | 100.0 | Dutch | 268 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,301 | 13.9 | English | 834 | 6.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 194 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 35 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,181 | 9.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,033 | 100.0 | Greek | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 234 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 33 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,252 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,096 | 8.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,874 | 25.8 | Italian | 128 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 40.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,378 | 74.2 | Norwegian | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 68.9 | (X) | Polish | 89 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,479 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 756 | 51.1 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 147 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 74 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 8 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,872 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,438 | 62.7 | Swedish | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,417 | 37.2 | Swiss | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,066 | 17.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,351 | 19.8 | United States or American | 3,644 | 28.5 | |
| Same state | 2,031 | 17.1 | Welsh | 130 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 320 | 2.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 17 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 1,317 | 10.3 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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