DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Anderson 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 | 55,109 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,231 | 100.0 | Native | 53,327 | 96.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 546 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 53,046 | 96.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 545 | 4.9 | State of residence | 32,477 | 58.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,379 | 47.9 | Different state | 20,569 | 37.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,323 | 29.6 | Born outside United States | 281 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,438 | 12.8 | Foreign born | 1,782 | 3.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 817 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 596 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 38,506 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,186 | 2.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,781 | 9.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,932 | 25.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,869 | 28.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,782 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 8,075 | 21.0 | Europe | 67 | 3.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,576 | 4.1 | Asia | 262 | 14.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,699 | 7.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,574 | 4.1 | Oceania | 20 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 1,389 | 77.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.4 | (X) | Northern America | 44 | 2.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 51,995 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 45,721 | 100.0 | English only | 48,445 | 93.2 | |
| Never married | 6,128 | 13.4 | Language other than English | 3,550 | 6.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 30,970 | 67.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,496 | 2.9 | |
| Separated | 1,504 | 3.3 | Spanish | 3,123 | 6.0 | |
| Widowed | 3,489 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,327 | 2.6 | |
| Female | 2,472 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 274 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 3,630 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 93 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,961 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 145 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 76 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 55,109 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 986 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 35,437 | 64.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 516 | 52.3 | Arab | 23 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 109 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 63 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 43,746 | 100.0 | Dutch | 469 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,611 | 12.8 | English | 3,309 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 804 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 184 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,375 | 6.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,758 | 100.0 | Greek | 77 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 728 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 52 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 21,792 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,850 | 7.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,427 | 24.9 | Italian | 395 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 51.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 16,365 | 75.1 | Norwegian | 164 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 75.9 | (X) | Polish | 239 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,865 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 62 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,045 | 51.9 | Russian | 48 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 838 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 539 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 51,995 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 313 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 31,863 | 61.3 | Swedish | 112 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 19,344 | 37.2 | Swiss | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 9,246 | 17.8 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 10,098 | 19.4 | United States or American | 6,491 | 11.8 | |
| Same state | 5,171 | 9.9 | Welsh | 135 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 4,927 | 9.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 788 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 13,713 | 24.9 | |
| 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)
