DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Luzerne 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 | 319,250 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 73,449 | 100.0 | Native | 313,079 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,353 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 311,457 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,626 | 4.9 | State of residence | 274,844 | 86.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 31,954 | 43.5 | Different state | 36,613 | 11.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 17,598 | 24.0 | Born outside United States | 1,622 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 15,918 | 21.7 | Foreign born | 6,171 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,200 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 3,731 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 226,374 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,440 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 13,336 | 5.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 29,554 | 13.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 93,749 | 41.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 6,171 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 37,158 | 16.4 | Europe | 3,045 | 49.3 | |
| Associate degree | 15,541 | 6.9 | Asia | 1,479 | 24.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 23,520 | 10.4 | Africa | 215 | 3.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 13,516 | 6.0 | Oceania | 34 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 1,154 | 18.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.1 | (X) | Northern America | 244 | 4.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 303,358 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 264,450 | 100.0 | English only | 287,778 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 70,662 | 26.7 | Language other than English | 15,580 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 138,183 | 52.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,723 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 5,558 | 2.1 | Spanish | 4,196 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 28,915 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,664 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 23,512 | 8.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 10,034 | 3.3 | |
| Divorced | 21,132 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,533 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 11,428 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 758 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 367 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 319,250 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4,283 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 385,991 | 120.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,887 | 44.1 | Arab | 3,039 | 1.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,005 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 199 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 252,009 | 100.0 | Dutch | 10,005 | 3.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 40,016 | 15.9 | English | 20,990 | 6.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,412 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 477 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 52,567 | 16.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 63,469 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,015 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 5,431 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 1,837 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 172,822 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 55,729 | 17.5 | |
| With a disability | 34,583 | 20.0 | Italian | 50,702 | 15.9 | |
| Percent employed | 54.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11,421 | 3.6 | |
| No disability | 138,239 | 80.0 | Norwegian | 445 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 78.8 | (X) | Polish | 76,290 | 23.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 58,755 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 228 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 25,658 | 43.7 | Russian | 9,387 | 2.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,701 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,889 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 21,583 | 6.8 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 303,358 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 330 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 209,576 | 69.1 | Swedish | 1,171 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 92,308 | 30.4 | Swiss | 277 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 67,731 | 22.3 | Ukrainian | 4,740 | 1.5 | |
| Different county | 24,577 | 8.1 | United States or American | 10,321 | 3.2 | |
| Same state | 14,397 | 4.7 | Welsh | 17,277 | 5.4 | |
| Different state | 10,180 | 3.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 131 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,474 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 24,823 | 7.8 | |
| 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)
