
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Coffee 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 | 43,615 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,041 | 100.0 | Native | 42,457 | 97.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 766 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 41,458 | 95.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 601 | 5.4 | State of residence | 27,790 | 63.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,194 | 47.0 | Different state | 13,668 | 31.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,489 | 22.5 | Born outside United States | 999 | 2.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,991 | 18.0 | Foreign born | 1,158 | 2.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 441 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 610 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 28,885 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 548 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,928 | 10.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,827 | 16.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,571 | 26.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,158 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,016 | 20.8 | Europe | 435 | 37.6 | |
| Associate degree | 1,969 | 6.8 | Asia | 332 | 28.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,562 | 12.3 | Africa | 32 | 2.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,012 | 7.0 | Oceania | 8 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 314 | 27.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.2 | (X) | Northern America | 37 | 3.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 40,914 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 34,794 | 100.0 | English only | 38,811 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 6,991 | 20.1 | Language other than English | 2,103 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,290 | 61.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 721 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 661 | 1.9 | Spanish | 1,205 | 2.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,643 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 416 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 2,174 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 569 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 3,209 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 143 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,866 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 295 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 149 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 43,615 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 759 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 34,734 | 79.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 442 | 58.2 | Arab | 85 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 63 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 157 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 31,492 | 100.0 | Dutch | 385 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,899 | 18.7 | English | 3,489 | 8.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 668 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 152 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,831 | 6.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,640 | 100.0 | Greek | 20 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 950 | 9.9 | Hungarian | 79 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 23,224 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,283 | 7.5 | |
| With a disability | 5,168 | 22.3 | Italian | 519 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 51.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 18,056 | 77.7 | Norwegian | 261 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 74.5 | (X) | Polish | 383 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,969 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 18 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,034 | 50.8 | Russian | 87 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 739 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 741 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 18 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 40,914 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 189 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 22,635 | 55.3 | Swedish | 136 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 17,210 | 42.1 | Swiss | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 8,150 | 19.9 | Ukrainian | 59 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 9,060 | 22.1 | United States or American | 8,819 | 20.2 | |
| Same state | 4,122 | 10.1 | Welsh | 106 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 4,938 | 12.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,069 | 2.6 | Other ancestries | 11,381 | 26.1 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

