DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Northampton 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 | 267,066 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 70,501 | 100.0 | Native | 254,839 | 95.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,495 | 6.4 | Born in United States | 248,358 | 93.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,355 | 4.8 | State of residence | 180,207 | 67.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 30,117 | 42.7 | Different state | 68,151 | 25.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 14,734 | 20.9 | Born outside United States | 6,481 | 2.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 17,800 | 25.2 | Foreign born | 12,227 | 4.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 4,397 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 6,515 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 180,018 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 5,712 | 2.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 11,481 | 6.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 23,249 | 12.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 65,750 | 36.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 12,227 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 29,286 | 16.3 | Europe | 4,504 | 36.8 | |
| Associate degree | 12,154 | 6.8 | Asia | 3,665 | 30.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 24,398 | 13.6 | Africa | 492 | 4.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 13,700 | 7.6 | Oceania | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 3,156 | 25.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.7 | (X) | Northern America | 396 | 3.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 251,979 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 215,658 | 100.0 | English only | 224,386 | 89.0 | |
| Never married | 53,813 | 25.0 | Language other than English | 27,593 | 11.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 124,271 | 57.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,479 | 3.8 | |
| Separated | 4,182 | 1.9 | Spanish | 13,867 | 5.5 | |
| Widowed | 16,345 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,576 | 2.2 | |
| Female | 13,067 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 10,004 | 4.0 | |
| Divorced | 17,047 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,482 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 9,627 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,201 | 0.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,059 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 267,066 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4,155 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 311,509 | 116.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,374 | 33.1 | Arab | 1,952 | 0.7 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,817 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 413 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 204,743 | 100.0 | Dutch | 11,268 | 4.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 28,039 | 13.7 | English | 18,777 | 7.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,551 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,048 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 74,315 | 27.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 59,525 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,724 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 3,802 | 6.4 | Hungarian | 10,415 | 3.9 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 149,635 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 33,957 | 12.7 | |
| With a disability | 21,052 | 14.1 | Italian | 37,954 | 14.2 | |
| Percent employed | 56.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,200 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 128,583 | 85.9 | Norwegian | 1,237 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 80.0 | (X) | Polish | 14,429 | 5.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 39,279 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,266 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 14,651 | 37.3 | Russian | 2,658 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,356 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,395 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7,757 | 2.9 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 251,979 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 611 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 155,472 | 61.7 | Swedish | 1,752 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 92,610 | 36.8 | Swiss | 821 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 47,671 | 18.9 | Ukrainian | 4,280 | 1.6 | |
| Different county | 44,939 | 17.8 | United States or American | 11,530 | 4.3 | |
| Same state | 21,418 | 8.5 | Welsh | 5,865 | 2.2 | |
| Different state | 23,521 | 9.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 554 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 3,897 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 53,607 | 20.1 | |
| 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)
