
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Wade Hampton Census Area
[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 | 7,028 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,968 | 100.0 | Native | 7,010 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 266 | 9.0 | Born in United States | 6,994 | 99.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 203 | 6.8 | State of residence | 6,612 | 94.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,658 | 55.9 | Different state | 382 | 5.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 722 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 16 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 119 | 4.0 | Foreign born | 18 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,082 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 670 | 21.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 368 | 11.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,269 | 41.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 18 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 427 | 13.9 | Europe | 5 | 27.8 | |
| Associate degree | 69 | 2.2 | Asia | 5 | 27.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 190 | 6.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 89 | 2.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 4 | 22.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.3 | (X) | Northern America | 4 | 22.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,288 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,269 | 100.0 | English only | 3,128 | 49.7 | |
| Never married | 2,062 | 48.3 | Language other than English | 3,160 | 50.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,708 | 40.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 977 | 15.5 | |
| Separated | 99 | 2.3 | Spanish | 18 | 0.3 | |
| Widowed | 248 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 177 | 4.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 152 | 3.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 67 | 1.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,028 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 374 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,891 | 83.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 263 | 70.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,749 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 315 | 8.4 | English | 70 | 1.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 21 | 0.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 10 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 103 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,883 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 201 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,048 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 60 | 0.9 | |
| With a disability | 737 | 24.2 | Italian | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 53.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,311 | 75.8 | Norwegian | 34 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 55.3 | (X) | Polish | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 357 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 233 | 65.3 | Russian | 33 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 14 | 0.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,288 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,713 | 75.0 | Swedish | 19 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,562 | 24.8 | Swiss | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,108 | 17.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 454 | 7.2 | United States or American | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Same state | 275 | 4.4 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 179 | 2.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 13 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 5,469 | 77.8 | |
| 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)

