
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Montour 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 | 18,236 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,244 | 100.0 | Native | 17,830 | 97.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 267 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 17,716 | 97.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 268 | 6.3 | State of residence | 15,202 | 83.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,087 | 49.2 | Different state | 2,514 | 13.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,124 | 26.5 | Born outside United States | 114 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 498 | 11.7 | Foreign born | 406 | 2.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 173 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 227 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,573 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 179 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 796 | 6.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,429 | 11.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,291 | 42.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 406 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,675 | 13.3 | Europe | 103 | 25.4 | |
| Associate degree | 604 | 4.8 | Asia | 193 | 47.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,392 | 11.1 | Africa | 17 | 4.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,386 | 11.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 62 | 15.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.3 | (X) | Northern America | 31 | 7.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 17,220 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 14,615 | 100.0 | English only | 16,133 | 93.7 | |
| Never married | 3,105 | 21.2 | Language other than English | 1,087 | 6.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,877 | 60.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 333 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 348 | 2.4 | Spanish | 230 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 1,071 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 41 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 839 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 692 | 4.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,214 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 203 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 683 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 100 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 63 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 18,236 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 198 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,895 | 98.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 99 | 50.0 | Arab | 63 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 57 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 13,783 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,031 | 5.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,947 | 14.1 | English | 1,309 | 7.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 274 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 38 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,491 | 30.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,867 | 100.0 | Greek | 66 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 266 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 116 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,946 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,710 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,742 | 17.5 | Italian | 886 | 4.9 | |
| Percent employed | 52.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 119 | 0.7 | |
| No disability | 8,204 | 82.5 | Norwegian | 98 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 79.7 | (X) | Polish | 1,036 | 5.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,729 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,062 | 38.9 | Russian | 141 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 217 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 336 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 326 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 17,220 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 11,225 | 65.2 | Swedish | 118 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,904 | 34.3 | Swiss | 116 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 2,585 | 15.0 | Ukrainian | 139 | 0.8 | |
| Different county | 3,319 | 19.3 | United States or American | 1,749 | 9.6 | |
| Same state | 2,431 | 14.1 | Welsh | 496 | 2.7 | |
| Different state | 888 | 5.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 91 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,929 | 10.6 | |
| 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)

