
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Coffee 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 | 48,014 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,485 | 100.0 | Native | 46,908 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 841 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 46,642 | 97.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 721 | 6.3 | State of residence | 31,973 | 66.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,458 | 47.5 | Different state | 14,669 | 30.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,727 | 23.7 | Born outside United States | 266 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,738 | 15.1 | Foreign born | 1,106 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 554 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 251 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 32,079 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 855 | 1.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,318 | 10.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,133 | 16.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,550 | 32.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,106 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,067 | 18.9 | Europe | 148 | 13.4 | |
| Associate degree | 1,404 | 4.4 | Asia | 292 | 26.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,678 | 11.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,929 | 6.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 610 | 55.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.7 | (X) | Northern America | 56 | 5.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 44,806 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 38,123 | 100.0 | English only | 43,131 | 96.3 | |
| Never married | 7,154 | 18.8 | Language other than English | 1,675 | 3.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,243 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 691 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 641 | 1.7 | Spanish | 1,071 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 2,834 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 522 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 2,278 | 6.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 310 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 4,251 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 2,333 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 268 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 113 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 48,014 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 812 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 38,120 | 79.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 408 | 50.2 | Arab | 17 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 57 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 164 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 36,007 | 100.0 | Dutch | 850 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,308 | 14.7 | English | 4,819 | 10.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 715 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 143 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,539 | 9.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,578 | 100.0 | Greek | 57 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 860 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 29 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 26,923 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,075 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 5,878 | 21.8 | Italian | 544 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 50.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 21,045 | 78.2 | Norwegian | 98 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 78.2 | (X) | Polish | 280 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,853 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,063 | 44.7 | Russian | 79 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,046 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 811 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 44,806 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 90 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 25,116 | 56.1 | Swedish | 250 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 19,303 | 43.1 | Swiss | 101 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 10,409 | 23.2 | Ukrainian | 47 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 8,894 | 19.9 | United States or American | 11,099 | 23.1 | |
| Same state | 5,037 | 11.2 | Welsh | 156 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 3,857 | 8.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 387 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 7,017 | 14.6 | |
| 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)

