DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Moore 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 | 20,121 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,772 | 100.0 | Native | 15,919 | 79.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 306 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 15,822 | 78.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 393 | 6.8 | State of residence | 11,056 | 54.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,125 | 54.1 | Different state | 4,766 | 23.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,336 | 23.1 | Born outside United States | 97 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 612 | 10.6 | Foreign born | 4,202 | 20.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,031 | 10.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 933 | 4.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,460 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3,269 | 16.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,302 | 20.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,037 | 17.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,267 | 28.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4,202 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,244 | 19.6 | Europe | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Associate degree | 344 | 3.0 | Asia | 134 | 3.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 879 | 7.7 | Africa | 17 | 0.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 387 | 3.4 | Oceania | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 4,029 | 95.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 62.1 | (X) | Northern America | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 18,263 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 14,481 | 100.0 | English only | 10,834 | 59.3 | |
| Never married | 2,825 | 19.5 | Language other than English | 7,429 | 40.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,438 | 65.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,700 | 20.3 | |
| Separated | 267 | 1.8 | Spanish | 7,250 | 39.7 | |
| Widowed | 881 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,624 | 19.8 | |
| Female | 780 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 48 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 1,070 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 506 | 3.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 124 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 57 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 20,121 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 487 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,679 | 87.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 272 | 55.9 | Arab | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 45 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 25 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 13,362 | 100.0 | Dutch | 118 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,238 | 9.3 | English | 897 | 4.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 179 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,660 | 8.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,688 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 292 | 5.1 | Hungarian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,418 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,416 | 7.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,833 | 17.6 | Italian | 50 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 62.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,585 | 82.4 | Norwegian | 69 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 75.9 | (X) | Polish | 40 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,956 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 845 | 43.2 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 217 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 196 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 25 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 18,263 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,952 | 49.0 | Swedish | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,584 | 47.0 | Swiss | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 5,115 | 28.0 | Ukrainian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,469 | 19.0 | United States or American | 1,841 | 9.1 | |
| Same state | 2,046 | 11.2 | Welsh | 57 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,423 | 7.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 727 | 4.0 | Other ancestries | 10,749 | 53.4 | |
| 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
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