
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Oldham 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 | 2,185 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 715 | 100.0 | Native | 2,067 | 94.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 17 | 2.4 | Born in United States | 2,058 | 94.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 4.9 | State of residence | 1,465 | 67.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 335 | 46.9 | Different state | 593 | 27.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 271 | 37.9 | Born outside United States | 9 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 57 | 8.0 | Foreign born | 118 | 5.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 41 | 1.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 37 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,250 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 81 | 3.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 95 | 7.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 149 | 11.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 338 | 27.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 118 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 350 | 28.0 | Europe | 4 | 3.4 | |
| Associate degree | 75 | 6.0 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 194 | 15.5 | Africa | 17 | 14.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 49 | 3.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 91 | 77.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.5 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 5.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,040 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,623 | 100.0 | English only | 1,777 | 87.1 | |
| Never married | 345 | 21.3 | Language other than English | 263 | 12.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,073 | 66.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 99 | 4.9 | |
| Separated | 23 | 1.4 | Spanish | 254 | 12.5 | |
| Widowed | 81 | 5.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 99 | 4.9 | |
| Female | 74 | 4.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 101 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 47 | 2.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,185 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 32 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,853 | 84.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 29 | 90.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 8 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,417 | 100.0 | Dutch | 31 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 196 | 13.8 | English | 182 | 8.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 17 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 7 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 327 | 15.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 694 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 41 | 5.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,100 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 192 | 8.8 | |
| With a disability | 238 | 21.6 | Italian | 29 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 64.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 862 | 78.4 | Norwegian | 21 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 77.8 | (X) | Polish | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 241 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 105 | 43.6 | Russian | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 40 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 18 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,040 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 28 | 1.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 969 | 47.5 | Swedish | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,048 | 51.4 | Swiss | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 250 | 12.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 798 | 39.1 | United States or American | 332 | 15.2 | |
| Same state | 566 | 27.7 | Welsh | 12 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 232 | 11.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 23 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 570 | 26.1 | |
| 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)

