
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Oneida 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 | 36,776 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,435 | 100.0 | Native | 36,395 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 453 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 36,236 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 441 | 5.2 | State of residence | 26,442 | 71.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,984 | 47.2 | Different state | 9,794 | 26.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,251 | 26.7 | Born outside United States | 159 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,306 | 15.5 | Foreign born | 381 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 85 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 270 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 26,449 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 111 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,160 | 4.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,791 | 10.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,648 | 36.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 381 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,733 | 21.7 | Europe | 228 | 59.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,837 | 6.9 | Asia | 46 | 12.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,444 | 13.0 | Africa | 14 | 3.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,836 | 6.9 | Oceania | 9 | 2.4 | |
| Latin America | 17 | 4.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.1 | (X) | Northern America | 67 | 17.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 35,079 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 30,164 | 100.0 | English only | 33,911 | 96.7 | |
| Never married | 5,687 | 18.9 | Language other than English | 1,168 | 3.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,827 | 62.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 364 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 317 | 1.1 | Spanish | 417 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 2,143 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 152 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,703 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 651 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 3,190 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 172 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,526 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 36,776 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 323 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 46,971 | 127.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 116 | 35.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,034 | 2.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 460 | 1.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 28,515 | 100.0 | Dutch | 931 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,158 | 18.1 | English | 3,062 | 8.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,155 | 5.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 716 | 1.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 17,936 | 48.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,476 | 100.0 | Greek | 50 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 681 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 123 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 20,308 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,769 | 13.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,539 | 22.4 | Italian | 1,026 | 2.8 | |
| Percent employed | 69.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 287 | 0.8 | |
| No disability | 15,769 | 77.6 | Norwegian | 2,622 | 7.1 | |
| Percent employed | 77.3 | (X) | Polish | 4,034 | 11.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,511 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 14 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,401 | 36.9 | Russian | 183 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 313 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 443 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 112 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 35,079 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 21,446 | 61.1 | Swedish | 1,972 | 5.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 13,275 | 37.8 | Swiss | 277 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 5,986 | 17.1 | Ukrainian | 87 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 7,289 | 20.8 | United States or American | 1,185 | 3.2 | |
| Same state | 4,818 | 13.7 | Welsh | 224 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 2,471 | 7.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 358 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 2,938 | 8.0 | |
| 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)

