DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Covington city
[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 | 6,303 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,202 | 100.0 | Native | 6,155 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 101 | 8.4 | Born in United States | 6,144 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 4.8 | State of residence | 4,947 | 78.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 632 | 52.6 | Different state | 1,197 | 19.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 247 | 20.5 | Born outside United States | 11 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 164 | 13.6 | Foreign born | 148 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 90 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 45 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,485 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 103 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 435 | 9.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 849 | 18.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,785 | 39.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 148 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 950 | 21.2 | Europe | 6 | 4.1 | |
| Associate degree | 180 | 4.0 | Asia | 25 | 16.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 227 | 5.1 | Africa | 12 | 8.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 59 | 1.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 98 | 66.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.4 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 4.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 6.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,901 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,157 | 100.0 | English only | 5,723 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 1,095 | 21.2 | Language other than English | 178 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,777 | 53.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 78 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 175 | 3.4 | Spanish | 110 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 545 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 41 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 485 | 9.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 36 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 565 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 331 | 6.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 25 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,303 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 163 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,780 | 75.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 74 | 45.4 | Arab | 34 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 13 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,962 | 100.0 | Dutch | 71 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 815 | 16.4 | English | 395 | 6.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 95 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 21 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 620 | 9.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,137 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 79 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,475 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 559 | 8.9 | |
| With a disability | 929 | 26.7 | Italian | 129 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 52.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,546 | 73.3 | Norwegian | 21 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 77.5 | (X) | Polish | 11 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,289 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 643 | 49.9 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 176 | 2.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 38 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,901 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,688 | 62.5 | Swedish | 29 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,134 | 36.2 | Swiss | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 261 | 4.4 | Ukrainian | 18 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 1,873 | 31.7 | United States or American | 1,218 | 19.3 | |
| Same state | 1,574 | 26.7 | Welsh | 18 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 299 | 5.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 56 | 0.9 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 79 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 1,252 | 19.9 | |
| 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
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