DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tallapoosa 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 | 41,475 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,775 | 100.0 | Native | 41,292 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 877 | 9.0 | Born in United States | 41,185 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 574 | 5.9 | State of residence | 35,566 | 85.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,673 | 47.8 | Different state | 5,619 | 13.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,430 | 24.9 | Born outside United States | 107 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,221 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 183 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 109 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 128 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 28,373 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 55 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,729 | 9.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,760 | 20.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,348 | 32.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 183 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,235 | 18.5 | Europe | 124 | 67.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,289 | 4.5 | Asia | 34 | 18.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,679 | 9.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,333 | 4.7 | Oceania | 2 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 13 | 7.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.1 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 5.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 38,899 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 33,184 | 100.0 | English only | 38,082 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 6,767 | 20.4 | Language other than English | 817 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,773 | 56.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 269 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 779 | 2.3 | Spanish | 497 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 3,268 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 179 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,744 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 203 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 3,597 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 44 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 2,009 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 99 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 41,475 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 950 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 29,616 | 71.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 547 | 57.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 36 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 31,414 | 100.0 | Dutch | 322 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,311 | 13.7 | English | 3,258 | 7.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 272 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 65 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,393 | 3.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,922 | 100.0 | Greek | 37 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 935 | 10.5 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 22,916 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,399 | 5.8 | |
| With a disability | 6,692 | 29.2 | Italian | 217 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 50.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 16,224 | 70.8 | Norwegian | 58 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.3 | (X) | Polish | 118 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,178 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,274 | 53.0 | Russian | 66 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 636 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 539 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 38,899 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 155 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 24,540 | 63.1 | Swedish | 59 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,202 | 36.5 | Swiss | 37 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 9,033 | 23.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,169 | 13.3 | United States or American | 8,020 | 19.3 | |
| Same state | 3,652 | 9.4 | Welsh | 96 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,517 | 3.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 157 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 11,798 | 28.4 | |
| 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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