DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pleasants 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 | 7,514 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,690 | 100.0 | Native | 7,479 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 96 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 7,442 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 122 | 7.2 | State of residence | 5,266 | 70.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 825 | 48.8 | Different state | 2,176 | 29.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 432 | 25.6 | Born outside United States | 37 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 215 | 12.7 | Foreign born | 35 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 21 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 14 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,121 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 21 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 466 | 9.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 591 | 11.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,509 | 49.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 35 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 806 | 15.7 | Europe | 8 | 22.9 | |
| Associate degree | 254 | 5.0 | Asia | 22 | 62.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 313 | 6.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 182 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.4 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 14.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,068 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,055 | 100.0 | English only | 6,970 | 98.6 | |
| Never married | 1,143 | 18.9 | Language other than English | 98 | 1.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,779 | 62.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 92 | 1.5 | Spanish | 67 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 502 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 422 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 539 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 280 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,514 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 79 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,614 | 74.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 43 | 54.4 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,714 | 100.0 | Dutch | 132 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 813 | 14.2 | English | 932 | 12.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 71 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 982 | 13.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,596 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 120 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,144 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 669 | 8.9 | |
| With a disability | 698 | 16.8 | Italian | 90 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 36.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 3,446 | 83.2 | Norwegian | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 72.5 | (X) | Polish | 43 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,071 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 480 | 44.8 | Russian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 143 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 147 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 11 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,068 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,545 | 64.3 | Swedish | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,497 | 35.3 | Swiss | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,367 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,130 | 16.0 | United States or American | 1,622 | 21.6 | |
| Same state | 708 | 10.0 | Welsh | 63 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 422 | 6.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 26 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 628 | 8.4 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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