
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Randolph 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 | 18,195 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,304 | 100.0 | Native | 18,034 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 365 | 8.5 | Born in United States | 17,951 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 231 | 5.4 | State of residence | 12,246 | 67.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,135 | 49.6 | Different state | 5,705 | 31.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,002 | 23.3 | Born outside United States | 83 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 571 | 13.3 | Foreign born | 161 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 105 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 56 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,207 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 105 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,914 | 15.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,841 | 15.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,684 | 38.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 161 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,083 | 17.1 | Europe | 37 | 23.0 | |
| Associate degree | 391 | 3.2 | Asia | 13 | 8.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 776 | 6.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 518 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 97 | 60.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.2 | (X) | Northern America | 14 | 8.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 17,105 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 14,543 | 100.0 | English only | 16,718 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 2,303 | 15.8 | Language other than English | 387 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,218 | 63.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 191 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 242 | 1.7 | Spanish | 278 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 1,167 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 158 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 985 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 94 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,613 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 904 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 18,195 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 299 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 13,926 | 76.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 167 | 55.9 | Arab | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 45 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 11 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 13,729 | 100.0 | Dutch | 219 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,027 | 14.8 | English | 1,141 | 6.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 391 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,342 | 12.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,993 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 333 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,917 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,524 | 8.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,672 | 26.9 | Italian | 252 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 49.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,245 | 73.1 | Norwegian | 33 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 76.0 | (X) | Polish | 55 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,878 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,427 | 49.6 | Russian | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 200 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 254 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 17,105 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,733 | 56.9 | Swedish | 73 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,185 | 42.0 | Swiss | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 4,423 | 25.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,762 | 16.1 | United States or American | 5,108 | 28.1 | |
| Same state | 1,434 | 8.4 | Welsh | 48 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,328 | 7.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 187 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 2,124 | 11.7 | |
| 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)

