
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pike 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 | 11,303 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,606 | 100.0 | Native | 11,056 | 97.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 138 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 11,018 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 137 | 5.3 | State of residence | 8,246 | 73.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,300 | 49.9 | Different state | 2,772 | 24.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 674 | 25.9 | Born outside United States | 38 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 357 | 13.7 | Foreign born | 247 | 2.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 177 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 25 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,653 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 222 | 2.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 872 | 11.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,513 | 19.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,997 | 39.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 247 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,316 | 17.2 | Europe | 6 | 2.4 | |
| Associate degree | 185 | 2.4 | Asia | 32 | 13.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 493 | 6.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 277 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 209 | 84.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,595 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,005 | 100.0 | English only | 10,188 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 1,346 | 14.9 | Language other than English | 407 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,790 | 64.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 216 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 134 | 1.5 | Spanish | 327 | 3.1 | |
| Widowed | 806 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 199 | 1.9 | |
| Female | 661 | 7.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 59 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 929 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 440 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,303 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 169 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,435 | 74.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 84 | 49.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,493 | 100.0 | Dutch | 233 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,132 | 13.3 | English | 740 | 6.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 136 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 17 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 769 | 6.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,442 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 245 | 10.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,178 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,061 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,334 | 21.6 | Italian | 93 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 48.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,844 | 78.4 | Norwegian | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 76.7 | (X) | Polish | 44 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,793 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 997 | 55.6 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 142 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 167 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,595 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,821 | 64.4 | Swedish | 29 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,696 | 34.9 | Swiss | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,611 | 15.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,085 | 19.7 | United States or American | 2,754 | 24.4 | |
| Same state | 1,265 | 11.9 | Welsh | 44 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 820 | 7.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 78 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 2,122 | 18.8 | |
| 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
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