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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Morris 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 13,048 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,217 100.0   Native 12,784 98.0
Nursery school, preschool 191 5.9       Born in United States 12,750 97.7
Kindergarten 236 7.3           State of residence 10,641 81.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,585 49.3           Different state 2,109 16.2
High school (grades 9-12) 786 24.4       Born outside United States 34 0.3
College or graduate school 419 13.0   Foreign born 264 2.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 93 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 125 1.0
  Population 25 years and over 8,776 100.0       Not a citizen 139 1.1
Less than 9th grade 712 8.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,600 18.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,019 34.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 264 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,061 23.5   Europe 22 8.3
Associate degree 404 4.6   Asia 17 6.4
Bachelor's degree 667 7.6   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 313 3.6   Oceania 10 3.8
        Latin America 205 77.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 73.7 (X)   Northern America 10 3.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 12,302 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 10,363 100.0   English only 11,817 96.1
Never married 1,959 18.9   Language other than English 485 3.9
Now married, except separated 6,032 58.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 215 1.7
Separated 257 2.5   Spanish 445 3.6
Widowed 1,002 9.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 197 1.6
 Female 830 8.0   Other Indo-European languages 13 0.1
Divorced 1,113 10.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 6 0.0
 Female 606 5.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 23 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 13,048 100.0
           under 18 years 340 100.0     Total ancestries reported 10,170 77.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 205 60.3   Arab 9 0.1
        Czech¹ 14 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 10 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 9,779 100.0   Dutch 155 1.2
Civilian veterans 1,496 15.3   English 774 5.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 188 1.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 12 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 730 5.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 3,028 100.0   Greek 4 0.0
With a disability 259 8.6   Hungarian 4 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 6,791 100.0   Irish¹ 1,184 9.1
With a disability 1,632 24.0   Italian 61 0.5
 Percent employed 43.7 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 5,159 76.0   Norwegian 13 0.1
 Percent employed 74.6 (X)   Polish 7 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 2,317 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 1,097 47.3   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 184 1.4
        Scottish 109 0.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 12,302 100.0   Subsaharan African 54 0.4
Same house in 1995 7,573 61.6   Swedish 67 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 4,657 37.9   Swiss 4 0.0
 Same county 2,329 18.9   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 2,328 18.9   United States or American 2,433 18.6
  Same state 1,901 15.5   Welsh 18 0.1
  Different state 427 3.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 19 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 72 0.6   Other ancestries 4,117 31.6
 
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.
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