DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Blount 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 | 51,024 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,833 | 100.0 | Native | 49,443 | 96.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 802 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 49,193 | 96.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 922 | 7.8 | State of residence | 41,300 | 80.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,869 | 49.6 | Different state | 7,893 | 15.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,640 | 22.3 | Born outside United States | 250 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,600 | 13.5 | Foreign born | 1,581 | 3.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,020 | 2.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 277 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 33,702 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,304 | 2.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,726 | 11.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,234 | 18.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,136 | 36.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,581 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,276 | 18.6 | Europe | 118 | 7.5 | |
| Associate degree | 2,095 | 6.2 | Asia | 87 | 5.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,972 | 5.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,263 | 3.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,359 | 86.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.4 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 1.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 47,360 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 40,097 | 100.0 | English only | 44,692 | 94.4 | |
| Never married | 6,750 | 16.8 | Language other than English | 2,668 | 5.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 26,584 | 66.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,510 | 3.2 | |
| Separated | 581 | 1.4 | Spanish | 2,363 | 5.0 | |
| Widowed | 2,727 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,396 | 2.9 | |
| Female | 2,293 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 243 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 3,455 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 72 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,702 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 57 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 51,024 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 845 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 36,442 | 71.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 446 | 52.8 | Arab | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 35 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 38 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 37,916 | 100.0 | Dutch | 548 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,683 | 12.4 | English | 3,749 | 7.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 867 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 63 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,574 | 5.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 11,391 | 100.0 | Greek | 52 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,170 | 10.3 | Hungarian | 46 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 29,325 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,500 | 10.8 | |
| With a disability | 7,209 | 24.6 | Italian | 438 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 50.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 22,116 | 75.4 | Norwegian | 80 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 76.7 | (X) | Polish | 121 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,228 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,296 | 52.9 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,256 | 2.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 772 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 47,360 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 28,122 | 59.4 | Swedish | 45 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 18,731 | 39.6 | Swiss | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 9,257 | 19.5 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 9,474 | 20.0 | United States or American | 11,501 | 22.5 | |
| Same state | 7,246 | 15.3 | Welsh | 100 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 2,228 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 507 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 8,539 | 16.7 | |
| 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)
