DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Banks 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 | 14,422 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,185 | 100.0 | Native | 14,117 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 226 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 14,104 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 265 | 8.3 | State of residence | 11,622 | 80.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,655 | 52.0 | Different state | 2,482 | 17.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 711 | 22.3 | Born outside United States | 13 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 328 | 10.3 | Foreign born | 305 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 193 | 1.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 60 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,401 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 245 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,244 | 13.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,011 | 21.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,603 | 38.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 305 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,433 | 15.2 | Europe | 39 | 12.8 | |
| Associate degree | 300 | 3.2 | Asia | 13 | 4.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 463 | 4.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 347 | 3.7 | Oceania | 2 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 242 | 79.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.4 | (X) | Northern America | 9 | 3.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,319 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,282 | 100.0 | English only | 12,821 | 96.3 | |
| Never married | 1,947 | 17.3 | Language other than English | 498 | 3.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,416 | 65.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 270 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 113 | 1.0 | Spanish | 433 | 3.3 | |
| Widowed | 657 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 247 | 1.9 | |
| Female | 520 | 4.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 41 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 1,149 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 540 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,422 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 343 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,870 | 75.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 167 | 48.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 10 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,661 | 100.0 | Dutch | 146 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,156 | 10.8 | English | 1,354 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 109 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 49 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 617 | 4.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,174 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 253 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,639 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,213 | 8.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,912 | 22.1 | Italian | 119 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 54.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 6,727 | 77.9 | Norwegian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 79.5 | (X) | Polish | 36 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,506 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 863 | 57.3 | Russian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 207 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 196 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,319 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,111 | 60.9 | Swedish | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,050 | 37.9 | Swiss | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,674 | 12.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,376 | 25.3 | United States or American | 4,606 | 31.9 | |
| Same state | 2,892 | 21.7 | Welsh | 27 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 484 | 3.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 158 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 2,095 | 14.5 | |
| 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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