
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greene 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 | 40,672 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,468 | 100.0 | Native | 40,402 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 390 | 4.1 | Born in United States | 40,204 | 98.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 463 | 4.9 | State of residence | 29,397 | 72.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,375 | 46.2 | Different state | 10,807 | 26.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,383 | 25.2 | Born outside United States | 198 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,857 | 19.6 | Foreign born | 270 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 110 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 148 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 27,758 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 122 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,408 | 8.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,332 | 15.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,201 | 47.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 270 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,333 | 12.0 | Europe | 106 | 39.3 | |
| Associate degree | 1,088 | 3.9 | Asia | 69 | 25.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,215 | 8.0 | Africa | 7 | 2.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,181 | 4.3 | Oceania | 2 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 69 | 25.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.7 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 6.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 38,564 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 33,334 | 100.0 | English only | 37,120 | 96.3 | |
| Never married | 8,128 | 24.4 | Language other than English | 1,444 | 3.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 19,025 | 57.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 408 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 647 | 1.9 | Spanish | 841 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 2,676 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 252 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 2,135 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 521 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 2,858 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 127 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,464 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 47 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 40,672 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 633 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 36,392 | 89.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 345 | 54.5 | Arab | 142 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 239 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 31,667 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,049 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,649 | 14.7 | English | 4,815 | 11.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 636 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 70 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,983 | 17.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,565 | 100.0 | Greek | 52 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 607 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 540 | 1.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 21,535 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,641 | 13.9 | |
| With a disability | 4,829 | 22.4 | Italian | 2,501 | 6.1 | |
| Percent employed | 40.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 54 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 16,706 | 77.6 | Norwegian | 104 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 71.8 | (X) | Polish | 2,184 | 5.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,888 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,637 | 44.8 | Russian | 522 | 1.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,560 | 3.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 583 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 997 | 2.5 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 38,564 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 25,848 | 67.0 | Swedish | 165 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 12,559 | 32.6 | Swiss | 58 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 7,651 | 19.8 | Ukrainian | 119 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 4,908 | 12.7 | United States or American | 3,552 | 8.7 | |
| Same state | 2,886 | 7.5 | Welsh | 343 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 2,022 | 5.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 157 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 3,467 | 8.5 | |
| 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)

