DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Washington 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 | 445,342 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 116,491 | 100.0 | Native | 381,904 | 85.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 7,852 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 377,392 | 84.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 7,152 | 6.1 | State of residence | 186,050 | 41.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 52,769 | 45.3 | Different state | 191,342 | 43.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 23,947 | 20.6 | Born outside United States | 4,512 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 24,771 | 21.3 | Foreign born | 63,438 | 14.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 33,657 | 7.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 20,343 | 4.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 285,518 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 43,095 | 9.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 12,924 | 4.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 18,746 | 6.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 57,379 | 20.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 63,438 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 76,994 | 27.0 | Europe | 8,183 | 12.9 | |
| Associate degree | 20,926 | 7.3 | Asia | 23,867 | 37.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 67,657 | 23.7 | Africa | 886 | 1.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 30,892 | 10.8 | Oceania | 588 | 0.9 | |
| Latin America | 27,195 | 42.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.9 | (X) | Northern America | 2,719 | 4.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 34.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 410,641 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 344,274 | 100.0 | English only | 334,295 | 81.4 | |
| Never married | 87,353 | 25.4 | Language other than English | 76,346 | 18.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 201,660 | 58.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37,648 | 9.2 | |
| Separated | 5,177 | 1.5 | Spanish | 39,174 | 9.5 | |
| Widowed | 15,377 | 4.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22,788 | 5.5 | |
| Female | 12,739 | 3.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 13,534 | 3.3 | |
| Divorced | 34,707 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,743 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 20,434 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 21,498 | 5.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10,498 | 2.6 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 445,342 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 5,486 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 509,363 | 114.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,851 | 33.7 | Arab | 2,152 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,155 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6,085 | 1.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 325,894 | 100.0 | Dutch | 11,560 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 40,546 | 12.4 | English | 56,999 | 12.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 15,375 | 3.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,908 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 92,558 | 20.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 100,565 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,443 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 7,459 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 1,779 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 269,765 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 50,920 | 11.4 | |
| With a disability | 37,885 | 14.0 | Italian | 14,886 | 3.3 | |
| Percent employed | 66.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 639 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 231,880 | 86.0 | Norwegian | 20,038 | 4.5 | |
| Percent employed | 81.2 | (X) | Polish | 8,163 | 1.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 38,338 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,665 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 15,074 | 39.3 | Russian | 4,386 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 8,936 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 13,700 | 3.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 332 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 410,641 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 914 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 169,384 | 41.2 | Swedish | 14,149 | 3.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 222,726 | 54.2 | Swiss | 4,137 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 111,340 | 27.1 | Ukrainian | 1,526 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 111,386 | 27.1 | United States or American | 24,840 | 5.6 | |
| Same state | 48,849 | 11.9 | Welsh | 5,299 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 62,537 | 15.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 520 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 18,531 | 4.5 | Other ancestries | 139,299 | 31.3 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)
