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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Montgomery 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 83,629 100.0
      enrolled in school 37,615 100.0   Native 78,816 94.2
Nursery school, preschool 1,050 2.8       Born in United States 77,776 93.0
Kindergarten 856 2.3           State of residence 47,997 57.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 6,364 16.9           Different state 29,779 35.6
High school (grades 9-12) 3,121 8.3       Born outside United States 1,040 1.2
College or graduate school 26,224 69.7   Foreign born 4,813 5.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 3,416 4.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,192 1.4
  Population 25 years and over 43,106 100.0       Not a citizen 3,621 4.3
Less than 9th grade 3,248 7.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 4,179 9.7   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 10,227 23.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 4,813 100.0
Some college, no degree 7,538 17.5   Europe 941 19.6
Associate degree 2,446 5.7   Asia 2,758 57.3
Bachelor's degree 7,439 17.3   Africa 298 6.2
Graduate or professional degree 8,029 18.6   Oceania 52 1.1
        Latin America 524 10.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 82.8 (X)   Northern America 240 5.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 35.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 79,589 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 71,634 100.0   English only 73,712 92.6
Never married 31,156 43.5   Language other than English 5,877 7.4
Now married, except separated 31,499 44.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2,007 2.5
Separated 1,096 1.5   Spanish 1,459 1.8
Widowed 3,136 4.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 463 0.6
 Female 2,669 3.7   Other Indo-European languages 1,941 2.4
Divorced 4,747 6.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 500 0.6
 Female 2,433 3.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 1,992 2.5
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 965 1.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 83,629 100.0
           under 18 years 745 100.0     Total ancestries reported 78,065 93.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 406 54.5   Arab 483 0.6
        Czech¹ 304 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 193 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 69,053 100.0   Dutch 1,247 1.5
Civilian veterans 6,097 8.8   English 11,107 13.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,659 2.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 323 0.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 13,529 16.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 23,438 100.0   Greek 302 0.4
With a disability 1,589 6.8   Hungarian 401 0.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 48,552 100.0   Irish¹ 9,309 11.1
With a disability 6,988 14.4   Italian 3,333 4.0
 Percent employed 53.2 (X)   Lithuanian 137 0.2
No disability 41,564 85.6   Norwegian 689 0.8
 Percent employed 72.8 (X)   Polish 1,583 1.9
     Population 65 years and over 6,894 100.0   Portuguese 79 0.1
With a disability 2,885 41.8   Russian 534 0.6
        Scotch-Irish 2,973 3.6
        Scottish 2,663 3.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 182 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 79,589 100.0   Subsaharan African 382 0.5
Same house in 1995 30,785 38.7   Swedish 856 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 45,946 57.7   Swiss 141 0.2
 Same county 14,552 18.3   Ukrainian 227 0.3
 Different county 31,394 39.4   United States or American 9,848 11.8
  Same state 19,705 24.8   Welsh 677 0.8
  Different state 11,689 14.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 133 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995 2,858 3.6   Other ancestries 14,771 17.7
 
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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