
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Williams 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 | 39,188 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,356 | 100.0 | Native | 38,787 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 566 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 38,617 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 580 | 6.2 | State of residence | 28,469 | 72.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,841 | 51.7 | Different state | 10,148 | 25.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,386 | 25.5 | Born outside United States | 170 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 983 | 10.5 | Foreign born | 401 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 123 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 275 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 25,690 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 126 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,056 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,297 | 12.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,499 | 48.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 401 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,626 | 18.0 | Europe | 59 | 14.7 | |
| Associate degree | 1,461 | 5.7 | Asia | 176 | 43.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,848 | 7.2 | Africa | 2 | 0.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 903 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 136 | 33.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.1 | (X) | Northern America | 28 | 7.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 36,702 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 30,841 | 100.0 | English only | 35,382 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 6,449 | 20.9 | Language other than English | 1,320 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,531 | 60.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 370 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 388 | 1.3 | Spanish | 782 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,987 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 223 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,657 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 332 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 3,486 | 11.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 62 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,773 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 188 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 76 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 39,188 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 562 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 36,175 | 92.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 195 | 34.7 | Arab | 83 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 66 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 39 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 28,932 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,107 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,908 | 13.5 | English | 3,299 | 8.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,731 | 4.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 200 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 14,141 | 36.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,296 | 100.0 | Greek | 11 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 642 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 190 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 21,304 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,445 | 8.8 | |
| With a disability | 3,555 | 16.7 | Italian | 582 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 70.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 17,749 | 83.3 | Norwegian | 138 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 86.3 | (X) | Polish | 643 | 1.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,065 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 17 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,995 | 39.4 | Russian | 94 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 407 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 562 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 34 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 36,702 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 21,728 | 59.2 | Swedish | 233 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,813 | 40.4 | Swiss | 264 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 9,388 | 25.6 | Ukrainian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 5,425 | 14.8 | United States or American | 4,824 | 12.3 | |
| Same state | 2,981 | 8.1 | Welsh | 197 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 2,444 | 6.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 161 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 3,824 | 9.8 | |
| 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)

