DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Chilton 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 | 39,593 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,022 | 100.0 | Native | 38,846 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 578 | 6.4 | Born in United States | 38,672 | 97.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 512 | 5.7 | State of residence | 32,562 | 82.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,816 | 53.4 | Different state | 6,110 | 15.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,181 | 24.2 | Born outside United States | 174 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 935 | 10.4 | Foreign born | 747 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 354 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 229 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 25,902 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 518 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,145 | 12.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,612 | 21.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,264 | 35.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 747 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,242 | 16.4 | Europe | 98 | 13.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,065 | 4.1 | Asia | 37 | 5.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,530 | 5.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,044 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 573 | 76.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.2 | (X) | Northern America | 39 | 5.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 36,939 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 31,103 | 100.0 | English only | 35,616 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 5,407 | 17.4 | Language other than English | 1,323 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 19,454 | 62.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 653 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 389 | 1.3 | Spanish | 1,023 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 2,653 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 583 | 1.6 | |
| Female | 2,259 | 7.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 261 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 3,200 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 64 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,599 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 39,593 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 892 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 27,876 | 70.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 519 | 58.2 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 10 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 26 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 29,392 | 100.0 | Dutch | 278 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,686 | 12.5 | English | 2,387 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 508 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 77 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,780 | 4.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,050 | 100.0 | Greek | 69 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 849 | 9.4 | Hungarian | 41 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 22,642 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,728 | 6.9 | |
| With a disability | 5,334 | 23.6 | Italian | 331 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 50.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 14 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 17,308 | 76.4 | Norwegian | 99 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 75.2 | (X) | Polish | 167 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,905 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,770 | 56.5 | Russian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 523 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 439 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 36,939 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 80 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 22,834 | 61.8 | Swedish | 193 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 13,826 | 37.4 | Swiss | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 7,631 | 20.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,195 | 16.8 | United States or American | 10,671 | 27.0 | |
| Same state | 4,471 | 12.1 | Welsh | 91 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,724 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 279 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 7,310 | 18.5 | |
| 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)
