
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greene 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 | 15,244 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,751 | 100.0 | Native | 14,994 | 98.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 245 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 14,900 | 97.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 197 | 5.3 | State of residence | 10,291 | 67.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,002 | 53.4 | Different state | 4,609 | 30.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 815 | 21.7 | Born outside United States | 94 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 492 | 13.1 | Foreign born | 250 | 1.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 63 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 109 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,120 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 141 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 987 | 9.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,200 | 11.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,513 | 34.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 250 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,890 | 18.7 | Europe | 100 | 40.0 | |
| Associate degree | 523 | 5.2 | Asia | 67 | 26.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,377 | 13.6 | Africa | 5 | 2.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 630 | 6.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 65 | 26.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.4 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 5.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,129 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,717 | 100.0 | English only | 13,713 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 2,419 | 20.6 | Language other than English | 416 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,415 | 63.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 87 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 236 | 2.0 | Spanish | 228 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 584 | 5.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 401 | 3.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 126 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,063 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 543 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 57 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,244 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 252 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 13,693 | 89.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 134 | 53.2 | Arab | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 51 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 57 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,105 | 100.0 | Dutch | 114 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,568 | 14.1 | English | 1,631 | 10.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 430 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 115 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,130 | 14.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,544 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 273 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 43 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,079 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,246 | 8.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,523 | 16.8 | Italian | 513 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 58.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 7,556 | 83.2 | Norwegian | 77 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 86.0 | (X) | Polish | 233 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,382 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 498 | 36.0 | Russian | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 298 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 429 | 2.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 28 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,129 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 37 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,039 | 56.9 | Swedish | 66 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,015 | 42.6 | Swiss | 62 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 2,248 | 15.9 | Ukrainian | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 3,767 | 26.7 | United States or American | 3,927 | 25.8 | |
| Same state | 2,790 | 19.7 | Welsh | 93 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 977 | 6.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 75 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 2,013 | 13.2 | |
| 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)

