DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Bleckley 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 | 11,666 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,502 | 100.0 | Native | 11,499 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 229 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 11,468 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 190 | 5.4 | State of residence | 9,911 | 85.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,510 | 43.1 | Different state | 1,557 | 13.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 706 | 20.2 | Born outside United States | 31 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 867 | 24.8 | Foreign born | 167 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 100 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 73 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,268 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 94 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 937 | 12.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,117 | 15.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,599 | 35.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 167 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,190 | 16.4 | Europe | 34 | 20.4 | |
| Associate degree | 516 | 7.1 | Asia | 26 | 15.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 550 | 7.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 359 | 4.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 107 | 64.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,959 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,131 | 100.0 | English only | 10,665 | 97.3 | |
| Never married | 2,422 | 26.5 | Language other than English | 294 | 2.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,797 | 52.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 148 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 240 | 2.6 | Spanish | 230 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 734 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 148 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 661 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 55 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 938 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 507 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 11,666 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 202 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,446 | 72.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 117 | 57.9 | Arab | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 26 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,520 | 100.0 | Dutch | 37 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,165 | 13.7 | English | 652 | 5.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 97 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 346 | 3.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,100 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 258 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,094 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 603 | 5.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,366 | 22.4 | Italian | 47 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 48.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,728 | 77.6 | Norwegian | 27 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 76.5 | (X) | Polish | 59 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,458 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 808 | 55.4 | Russian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 287 | 2.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 98 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,959 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 118 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,274 | 66.4 | Swedish | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,621 | 33.0 | Swiss | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,836 | 16.8 | Ukrainian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,785 | 16.3 | United States or American | 2,613 | 22.4 | |
| Same state | 1,294 | 11.8 | Welsh | 33 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 491 | 4.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 64 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 3,318 | 28.4 | |
| 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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