DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Barrow 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 | 46,144 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,251 | 100.0 | Native | 44,464 | 96.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 978 | 8.7 | Born in United States | 44,210 | 95.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 756 | 6.7 | State of residence | 30,717 | 66.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,958 | 53.0 | Different state | 13,493 | 29.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,416 | 21.5 | Born outside United States | 254 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,143 | 10.2 | Foreign born | 1,680 | 3.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 691 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 668 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 29,317 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,012 | 2.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,755 | 9.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,069 | 17.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,551 | 36.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,680 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,137 | 20.9 | Europe | 295 | 17.6 | |
| Associate degree | 1,609 | 5.5 | Asia | 752 | 44.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,283 | 7.8 | Africa | 45 | 2.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 913 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 555 | 33.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.3 | (X) | Northern America | 33 | 2.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 42,429 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 35,047 | 100.0 | English only | 39,973 | 94.2 | |
| Never married | 6,893 | 19.7 | Language other than English | 2,456 | 5.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,478 | 61.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,296 | 3.1 | |
| Separated | 532 | 1.5 | Spanish | 1,035 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 2,320 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 528 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 1,902 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 518 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 3,824 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 218 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,978 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 882 | 2.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 544 | 1.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 46,144 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,063 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 38,063 | 82.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 493 | 46.4 | Arab | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 42 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 53 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 33,142 | 100.0 | Dutch | 444 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,085 | 12.3 | English | 4,028 | 8.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 737 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 168 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,994 | 8.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,816 | 100.0 | Greek | 70 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 724 | 6.7 | Hungarian | 83 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 27,144 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,936 | 10.7 | |
| With a disability | 5,067 | 18.7 | Italian | 881 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 55.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 57 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 22,077 | 81.3 | Norwegian | 206 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 81.4 | (X) | Polish | 468 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,145 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,376 | 57.3 | Russian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 865 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 748 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 31 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 42,429 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 170 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 20,135 | 47.5 | Swedish | 238 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 21,835 | 51.5 | Swiss | 56 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 7,890 | 18.6 | Ukrainian | 135 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 13,945 | 32.9 | United States or American | 9,236 | 20.0 | |
| Same state | 10,020 | 23.6 | Welsh | 316 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 3,925 | 9.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 63 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 459 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 10,021 | 21.7 | |
| 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)
