DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Montgomery 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 | 9,245 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,860 | 100.0 | Native | 9,060 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 86 | 4.6 | Born in United States | 9,049 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 119 | 6.4 | State of residence | 6,149 | 66.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 957 | 51.5 | Different state | 2,900 | 31.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 513 | 27.6 | Born outside United States | 11 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 185 | 9.9 | Foreign born | 185 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 129 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 15 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,464 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 170 | 1.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 802 | 12.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,148 | 17.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,537 | 39.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 185 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,145 | 17.7 | Europe | 2 | 1.1 | |
| Associate degree | 261 | 4.0 | Asia | 13 | 7.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 337 | 5.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 234 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 151 | 81.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.8 | (X) | Northern America | 19 | 10.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,690 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,446 | 100.0 | English only | 8,334 | 95.9 | |
| Never married | 1,121 | 15.1 | Language other than English | 356 | 4.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,866 | 65.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 150 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 76 | 1.0 | Spanish | 275 | 3.2 | |
| Widowed | 602 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 137 | 1.6 | |
| Female | 500 | 6.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 50 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 781 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 368 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 25 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,245 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 195 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,762 | 73.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 132 | 67.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 25 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 42 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,049 | 100.0 | Dutch | 107 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,204 | 17.1 | English | 681 | 7.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 219 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 21 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 703 | 7.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,935 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 175 | 9.0 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,003 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,017 | 11.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,287 | 25.7 | Italian | 101 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 44.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,716 | 74.3 | Norwegian | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 73.2 | (X) | Polish | 27 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,648 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 847 | 51.4 | Russian | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 176 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 96 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,690 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,550 | 63.9 | Swedish | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,082 | 35.5 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,307 | 15.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,775 | 20.4 | United States or American | 1,938 | 21.0 | |
| Same state | 1,041 | 12.0 | Welsh | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 734 | 8.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 58 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 1,488 | 16.1 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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