
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Louisa 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 | 25,627 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,754 | 100.0 | Native | 25,297 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 223 | 3.9 | Born in United States | 25,152 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 418 | 7.3 | State of residence | 18,418 | 71.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,926 | 50.9 | Different state | 6,734 | 26.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,510 | 26.2 | Born outside United States | 145 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 677 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 330 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 61 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 197 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,697 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 133 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,945 | 11.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,056 | 17.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,173 | 34.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 330 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,243 | 18.3 | Europe | 156 | 47.3 | |
| Associate degree | 806 | 4.6 | Asia | 94 | 28.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,662 | 9.4 | Africa | 5 | 1.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 812 | 4.6 | Oceania | 18 | 5.5 | |
| Latin America | 37 | 11.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.7 | (X) | Northern America | 20 | 6.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 24,100 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,460 | 100.0 | English only | 23,466 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 4,587 | 22.4 | Language other than English | 634 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,979 | 58.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 204 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 477 | 2.3 | Spanish | 243 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,405 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 90 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,105 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 299 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 2,012 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 88 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,031 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 84 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 25,627 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 658 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 22,350 | 87.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 326 | 49.5 | Arab | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 33 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,378 | 100.0 | Dutch | 242 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,770 | 14.3 | English | 2,891 | 11.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 571 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 85 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,711 | 10.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,552 | 100.0 | Greek | 45 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 505 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 49 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 15,233 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,171 | 8.5 | |
| With a disability | 3,375 | 22.2 | Italian | 655 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 59.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 11,858 | 77.8 | Norwegian | 194 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 75.8 | (X) | Polish | 256 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,202 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,439 | 44.9 | Russian | 67 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 666 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 563 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 25 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 24,100 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 131 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,744 | 61.2 | Swedish | 107 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,259 | 38.4 | Swiss | 43 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 3,376 | 14.0 | Ukrainian | 37 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 5,883 | 24.4 | United States or American | 4,536 | 17.7 | |
| Same state | 4,322 | 17.9 | Welsh | 164 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 1,561 | 6.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 58 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 97 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 6,016 | 23.5 | |
| 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)

