
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hampton 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 | 146,437 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 42,305 | 100.0 | Native | 140,659 | 96.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,431 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 137,211 | 93.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,958 | 4.6 | State of residence | 68,741 | 46.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 16,912 | 40.0 | Different state | 68,470 | 46.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 8,174 | 19.3 | Born outside United States | 3,448 | 2.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 12,830 | 30.3 | Foreign born | 5,778 | 3.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,649 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 3,335 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 92,477 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,443 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,823 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,579 | 10.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 25,890 | 28.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 5,778 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 25,119 | 27.2 | Europe | 1,574 | 27.2 | |
| Associate degree | 7,928 | 8.6 | Asia | 2,154 | 37.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 12,500 | 13.5 | Africa | 356 | 6.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 7,638 | 8.3 | Oceania | 68 | 1.2 | |
| Latin America | 1,372 | 23.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.5 | (X) | Northern America | 254 | 4.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 137,303 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 116,862 | 100.0 | English only | 128,122 | 93.3 | |
| Never married | 33,244 | 28.4 | Language other than English | 9,181 | 6.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 60,130 | 51.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,940 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 4,766 | 4.1 | Spanish | 3,956 | 2.9 | |
| Widowed | 7,165 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,159 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 6,007 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,841 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 11,557 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 715 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 6,626 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,971 | 1.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 946 | 0.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 146,437 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,491 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 140,565 | 96.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,613 | 46.2 | Arab | 286 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 282 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 216 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 104,327 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,055 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 28,312 | 27.1 | English | 11,470 | 7.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,748 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,018 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 13,156 | 9.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 33,473 | 100.0 | Greek | 438 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,638 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 322 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 73,279 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 10,413 | 7.1 | |
| With a disability | 14,411 | 19.7 | Italian | 3,932 | 2.7 | |
| Percent employed | 57.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 131 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 58,868 | 80.3 | Norwegian | 1,004 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 78.1 | (X) | Polish | 2,161 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 14,510 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 335 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 6,611 | 45.6 | Russian | 288 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,123 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,449 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 204 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 137,303 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,804 | 1.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 65,447 | 47.7 | Swedish | 719 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 67,724 | 49.3 | Swiss | 218 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 26,442 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 239 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 41,282 | 30.1 | United States or American | 10,614 | 7.2 | |
| Same state | 16,513 | 12.0 | Welsh | 738 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 24,769 | 18.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,364 | 0.9 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4,132 | 3.0 | Other ancestries | 70,838 | 48.4 | |
| 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)

