DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Baldwin 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 | 44,700 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 13,169 | 100.0 | Native | 43,863 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 900 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 43,591 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 540 | 4.1 | State of residence | 34,537 | 77.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,590 | 34.9 | Different state | 9,054 | 20.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,908 | 22.1 | Born outside United States | 272 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,231 | 32.1 | Foreign born | 837 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 350 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 407 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 28,445 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 430 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,426 | 8.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,369 | 18.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,076 | 35.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 837 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,733 | 16.6 | Europe | 177 | 21.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,245 | 4.4 | Asia | 433 | 51.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,740 | 9.6 | Africa | 20 | 2.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,856 | 6.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 207 | 24.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.6 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 42,429 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 36,978 | 100.0 | English only | 40,189 | 94.7 | |
| Never married | 12,167 | 32.9 | Language other than English | 2,240 | 5.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 17,439 | 47.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 802 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 1,007 | 2.7 | Spanish | 1,242 | 2.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,281 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 456 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 1,822 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 460 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 4,084 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 171 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,822 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 416 | 1.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 154 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 44,700 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 939 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 34,877 | 78.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 486 | 51.8 | Arab | 67 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 31 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 33 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 34,978 | 100.0 | Dutch | 169 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,595 | 13.1 | English | 2,749 | 6.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 471 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 50 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,777 | 4.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,961 | 100.0 | Greek | 19 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 955 | 9.6 | Hungarian | 48 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 21,822 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,308 | 5.2 | |
| With a disability | 4,825 | 22.1 | Italian | 577 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 53.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 16 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 16,997 | 77.9 | Norwegian | 114 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 75.1 | (X) | Polish | 159 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,886 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,762 | 45.3 | Russian | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 702 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 586 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 42,429 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 404 | 0.9 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 23,352 | 55.0 | Swedish | 112 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 18,860 | 44.5 | Swiss | 19 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 8,618 | 20.3 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 10,242 | 24.1 | United States or American | 6,434 | 14.4 | |
| Same state | 7,194 | 17.0 | Welsh | 127 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 3,048 | 7.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 217 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 17,820 | 39.9 | |
| 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)
