
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Loudoun 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 | 169,599 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 46,444 | 100.0 | Native | 150,483 | 88.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,115 | 11.0 | Born in United States | 147,067 | 86.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,162 | 6.8 | State of residence | 57,304 | 33.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 21,930 | 47.2 | Different state | 89,763 | 52.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 8,225 | 17.7 | Born outside United States | 3,416 | 2.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 8,012 | 17.3 | Foreign born | 19,116 | 11.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 8,824 | 5.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 7,998 | 4.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 109,567 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 11,118 | 6.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,103 | 2.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,079 | 4.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 19,358 | 17.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 19,108 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 22,906 | 20.9 | Europe | 3,324 | 17.4 | |
| Associate degree | 7,412 | 6.8 | Asia | 7,914 | 41.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 35,010 | 32.0 | Africa | 1,137 | 6.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 16,699 | 15.2 | Oceania | 138 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 5,871 | 30.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 92.5 | (X) | Northern America | 724 | 3.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 47.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 153,293 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 125,334 | 100.0 | English only | 130,316 | 85.0 | |
| Never married | 26,557 | 21.2 | Language other than English | 22,977 | 15.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 81,833 | 65.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8,772 | 5.7 | |
| Separated | 2,674 | 2.1 | Spanish | 9,398 | 6.1 | |
| Widowed | 4,098 | 3.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,431 | 2.9 | |
| Female | 3,374 | 2.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 7,090 | 4.6 | |
| Divorced | 10,172 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,636 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 6,006 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5,226 | 3.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,308 | 1.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 169,599 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,920 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 194,610 | 114.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 891 | 30.5 | Arab | 1,310 | 0.8 | |
| Czech¹ | 974 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 702 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 118,666 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,255 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 15,827 | 13.3 | English | 23,341 | 13.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,709 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,572 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 33,036 | 19.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 37,883 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,124 | 0.7 | |
| With a disability | 2,092 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 1,206 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 105,311 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 26,115 | 15.4 | |
| With a disability | 10,901 | 10.4 | Italian | 12,022 | 7.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 545 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 94,410 | 89.6 | Norwegian | 1,899 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 83.8 | (X) | Polish | 5,821 | 3.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,878 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 509 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,898 | 32.6 | Russian | 1,994 | 1.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 3,705 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,512 | 3.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 733 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 153,293 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,233 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 61,921 | 40.4 | Swedish | 2,012 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 84,893 | 55.4 | Swiss | 769 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 24,594 | 16.0 | Ukrainian | 569 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 60,299 | 39.3 | United States or American | 12,835 | 7.6 | |
| Same state | 30,748 | 20.1 | Welsh | 2,169 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 29,551 | 19.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 555 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 6,479 | 4.2 | Other ancestries | 45,384 | 26.8 | |
| 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)

