
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Nottoway 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 | 15,725 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,322 | 100.0 | Native | 15,499 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 131 | 3.9 | Born in United States | 15,400 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 234 | 7.0 | State of residence | 12,398 | 78.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,783 | 53.7 | Different state | 3,002 | 19.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 948 | 28.5 | Born outside United States | 99 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 226 | 6.8 | Foreign born | 226 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 145 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 57 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,841 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 169 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,477 | 13.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,382 | 22.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,447 | 31.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 226 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,855 | 17.1 | Europe | 37 | 16.4 | |
| Associate degree | 476 | 4.4 | Asia | 26 | 11.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 778 | 7.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 426 | 3.9 | Oceania | 5 | 2.2 | |
| Latin America | 138 | 61.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.4 | (X) | Northern America | 20 | 8.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,855 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,746 | 100.0 | English only | 14,316 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 2,736 | 21.5 | Language other than English | 539 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,946 | 54.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 236 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 295 | 2.3 | Spanish | 304 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,536 | 12.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 173 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 1,031 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 102 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,233 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 45 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 560 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 40 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,725 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 478 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,582 | 73.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 364 | 76.2 | Arab | 40 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,073 | 100.0 | Dutch | 113 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,749 | 14.5 | English | 1,176 | 7.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 121 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 37 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 761 | 4.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,208 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 249 | 7.8 | Hungarian | 62 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,639 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 725 | 4.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,662 | 21.8 | Italian | 234 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 46.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,977 | 78.2 | Norwegian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 77.4 | (X) | Polish | 40 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,336 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 992 | 42.5 | Russian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 270 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 195 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,855 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 89 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,118 | 61.4 | Swedish | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,564 | 37.5 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,110 | 14.2 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,454 | 23.3 | United States or American | 2,102 | 13.4 | |
| Same state | 2,685 | 18.1 | Welsh | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 769 | 5.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 27 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 173 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 5,473 | 34.8 | |
| 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)

