DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cherokee 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 | 23,988 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,661 | 100.0 | Native | 23,729 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 254 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 23,710 | 98.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 338 | 7.3 | State of residence | 14,767 | 61.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,510 | 53.9 | Different state | 8,943 | 37.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 988 | 21.2 | Born outside United States | 19 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 571 | 12.3 | Foreign born | 259 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 101 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 91 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,825 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 168 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,322 | 13.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,816 | 22.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,865 | 34.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 259 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,477 | 14.7 | Europe | 101 | 39.0 | |
| Associate degree | 709 | 4.2 | Asia | 59 | 22.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 928 | 5.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 708 | 4.2 | Oceania | 11 | 4.2 | |
| Latin America | 85 | 32.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.5 | (X) | Northern America | 3 | 1.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 22,558 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 19,530 | 100.0 | English only | 22,085 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 3,025 | 15.5 | Language other than English | 473 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,615 | 64.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 148 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 336 | 1.7 | Spanish | 300 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 1,600 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 61 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,373 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 85 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,954 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 888 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 23,988 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 526 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,949 | 70.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 365 | 69.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,675 | 100.0 | Dutch | 296 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,408 | 12.9 | English | 1,503 | 6.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 86 | 0.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 790 | 3.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,686 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 533 | 11.4 | Hungarian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,859 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,674 | 7.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,561 | 25.7 | Italian | 97 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 43.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,298 | 74.3 | Norwegian | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.1 | (X) | Polish | 76 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,638 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 11 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,680 | 46.2 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 249 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 187 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 22,558 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 66 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,299 | 63.4 | Swedish | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,085 | 35.8 | Swiss | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,817 | 16.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,268 | 18.9 | United States or American | 8,346 | 34.8 | |
| Same state | 1,701 | 7.5 | Welsh | 70 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 2,567 | 11.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 174 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 3,392 | 14.1 | |
| 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
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