DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greer 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 | 6,061 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,265 | 100.0 | Native | 5,972 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 33 | 2.6 | Born in United States | 5,942 | 98.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 6.2 | State of residence | 4,080 | 67.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 590 | 46.6 | Different state | 1,862 | 30.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 303 | 24.0 | Born outside United States | 30 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 261 | 20.6 | Foreign born | 89 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 39 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 36 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,302 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 53 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 318 | 7.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 684 | 15.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,562 | 36.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 89 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 913 | 21.2 | Europe | 12 | 13.5 | |
| Associate degree | 282 | 6.6 | Asia | 16 | 18.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 383 | 8.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 160 | 3.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 54 | 60.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.7 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 7.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,780 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,095 | 100.0 | English only | 5,323 | 92.1 | |
| Never married | 1,125 | 22.1 | Language other than English | 457 | 7.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,603 | 51.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 188 | 3.3 | |
| Separated | 131 | 2.6 | Spanish | 306 | 5.3 | |
| Widowed | 535 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 145 | 2.5 | |
| Female | 434 | 8.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 50 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 701 | 13.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 253 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,061 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 61 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,783 | 78.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 35 | 57.4 | Arab | 23 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 34 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 10 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,856 | 100.0 | Dutch | 70 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 727 | 15.0 | English | 509 | 8.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 74 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 25 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 481 | 7.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,090 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 104 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,540 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 558 | 9.2 | |
| With a disability | 652 | 25.7 | Italian | 75 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 51.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,888 | 74.3 | Norwegian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 76.1 | (X) | Polish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,193 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 544 | 45.6 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 141 | 2.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 66 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,780 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 115 | 1.9 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,206 | 55.5 | Swedish | 45 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,514 | 43.5 | Swiss | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,062 | 18.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,452 | 25.1 | United States or American | 844 | 13.9 | |
| Same state | 1,008 | 17.4 | Welsh | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 444 | 7.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 60 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 1,678 | 27.7 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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