DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Burke 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 | 22,243 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,592 | 100.0 | Native | 22,056 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 450 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 21,869 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 398 | 6.0 | State of residence | 18,587 | 83.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,461 | 52.5 | Different state | 3,282 | 14.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,670 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 187 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 613 | 9.3 | Foreign born | 187 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 62 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 123 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,338 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 64 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,773 | 13.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,915 | 21.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,935 | 37.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 187 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,938 | 14.5 | Europe | 70 | 37.4 | |
| Associate degree | 506 | 3.8 | Asia | 14 | 7.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 870 | 6.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 401 | 3.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 103 | 55.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.9 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,452 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,497 | 100.0 | English only | 19,739 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 4,972 | 30.1 | Language other than English | 713 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,638 | 46.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 276 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 663 | 4.0 | Spanish | 458 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,385 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 155 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 1,154 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 239 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,839 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 111 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,020 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,243 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 788 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 18,693 | 84.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 481 | 61.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 54 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,238 | 100.0 | Dutch | 268 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,957 | 12.8 | English | 1,106 | 5.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 285 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 23 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 701 | 3.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,091 | 100.0 | Greek | 21 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 815 | 13.4 | Hungarian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,806 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 905 | 4.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,713 | 31.5 | Italian | 107 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 47.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,093 | 68.5 | Norwegian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 71.8 | (X) | Polish | 63 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,448 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 14 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,457 | 59.5 | Russian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 320 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 180 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,452 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 226 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,964 | 63.4 | Swedish | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,225 | 35.3 | Swiss | 63 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 4,285 | 21.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,940 | 14.4 | United States or American | 2,741 | 12.3 | |
| Same state | 2,027 | 9.9 | Welsh | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 913 | 4.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 263 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 11,491 | 51.7 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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