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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Montgomery 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 293,768 100.0
      enrolled in school 81,114 100.0   Native 268,492 91.4
Nursery school, preschool 6,066 7.5       Born in United States 265,679 90.4
Kindergarten 4,772 5.9           State of residence 171,705 58.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 40,669 50.1           Different state 93,974 32.0
High school (grades 9-12) 18,147 22.4       Born outside United States 2,813 1.0
College or graduate school 11,460 14.1   Foreign born 25,276 8.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 12,353 4.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 7,715 2.6
  Population 25 years and over 183,743 100.0       Not a citizen 17,561 6.0
Less than 9th grade 11,554 6.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 22,261 12.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 50,310 27.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 25,276 100.0
Some college, no degree 44,189 24.0   Europe 3,265 12.9
Associate degree 8,947 4.9   Asia 2,631 10.4
Bachelor's degree 32,504 17.7   Africa 481 1.9
Graduate or professional degree 13,978 7.6   Oceania 154 0.6
        Latin America 17,949 71.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 81.6 (X)   Northern America 796 3.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 25.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 271,298 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 221,992 100.0   English only 233,746 86.2
Never married 43,102 19.4   Language other than English 37,552 13.8
Now married, except separated 143,419 64.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 16,858 6.2
Separated 4,206 1.9   Spanish 31,077 11.5
Widowed 11,035 5.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 15,344 5.7
 Female 9,106 4.1   Other Indo-European languages 4,258 1.6
Divorced 20,230 9.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 781 0.3
 Female 11,448 5.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 1,854 0.7
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 666 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 293,768 100.0
           under 18 years 6,216 100.0     Total ancestries reported 287,202 97.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 3,196 51.4   Arab 798 0.3
        Czech¹ 2,636 0.9
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 869 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 207,420 100.0   Dutch 4,527 1.5
Civilian veterans 27,265 13.1   English 30,659 10.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 11,948 4.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 2,455 0.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 45,149 15.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 74,230 100.0   Greek 661 0.2
With a disability 5,417 7.3   Hungarian 823 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 170,754 100.0   Irish¹ 34,564 11.8
With a disability 31,380 18.4   Italian 9,590 3.3
 Percent employed 60.2 (X)   Lithuanian 125 0.0
No disability 139,374 81.6   Norwegian 2,850 1.0
 Percent employed 75.3 (X)   Polish 6,745 2.3
     Population 65 years and over 24,721 100.0   Portuguese 399 0.1
With a disability 10,589 42.8   Russian 962 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 6,540 2.2
        Scottish 6,111 2.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 367 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 271,298 100.0   Subsaharan African 532 0.2
Same house in 1995 126,776 46.7   Swedish 2,644 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 136,326 50.2   Swiss 547 0.2
 Same county 52,613 19.4   Ukrainian 369 0.1
 Different county 83,713 30.9   United States or American 34,831 11.9
  Same state 57,623 21.2   Welsh 1,684 0.6
  Different state 26,090 9.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 477 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995 8,196 3.0   Other ancestries 77,340 26.3
 
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.
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