
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Doddridge 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 | 7,403 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,737 | 100.0 | Native | 7,360 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 85 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 7,346 | 99.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 4.4 | State of residence | 5,945 | 80.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 884 | 50.9 | Different state | 1,401 | 18.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 537 | 30.9 | Born outside United States | 14 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 155 | 8.9 | Foreign born | 43 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 27 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,897 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 628 | 12.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 870 | 17.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,021 | 41.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 43 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 754 | 15.4 | Europe | 23 | 53.5 | |
| Associate degree | 124 | 2.5 | Asia | 20 | 46.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 392 | 8.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 108 | 2.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,958 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,965 | 100.0 | English only | 6,764 | 97.2 | |
| Never married | 1,286 | 21.6 | Language other than English | 194 | 2.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,478 | 58.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 61 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 90 | 1.5 | Spanish | 77 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 496 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 412 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 78 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 615 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 247 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 20 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,403 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 134 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,127 | 82.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 91 | 67.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,518 | 100.0 | Dutch | 343 | 4.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 767 | 13.9 | English | 823 | 11.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 81 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 25 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,006 | 13.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,634 | 100.0 | Greek | 11 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 122 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 21 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,108 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,189 | 16.1 | |
| With a disability | 983 | 23.9 | Italian | 202 | 2.7 | |
| Percent employed | 30.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 3,125 | 76.1 | Norwegian | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 66.8 | (X) | Polish | 40 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,101 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 620 | 56.3 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 154 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 70 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 22 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,958 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,786 | 68.8 | Swedish | 19 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,160 | 31.0 | Swiss | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 664 | 9.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,496 | 21.5 | United States or American | 1,175 | 15.9 | |
| Same state | 1,107 | 15.9 | Welsh | 101 | 1.4 | |
| Different state | 389 | 5.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 12 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 774 | 10.5 | |
| 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)

