DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Candler 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 | 9,577 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,343 | 100.0 | Native | 8,991 | 93.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 186 | 7.9 | Born in United States | 8,904 | 93.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 97 | 4.1 | State of residence | 7,325 | 76.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,194 | 51.0 | Different state | 1,579 | 16.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 626 | 26.7 | Born outside United States | 87 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 240 | 10.2 | Foreign born | 586 | 6.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 446 | 4.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 95 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,166 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 491 | 5.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,105 | 17.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,550 | 25.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,804 | 29.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 586 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 859 | 13.9 | Europe | 8 | 1.4 | |
| Associate degree | 222 | 3.6 | Asia | 17 | 2.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 424 | 6.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 202 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 561 | 95.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 56.9 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,845 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,431 | 100.0 | English only | 8,001 | 90.5 | |
| Never married | 1,623 | 21.8 | Language other than English | 844 | 9.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,101 | 55.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 573 | 6.5 | |
| Separated | 255 | 3.4 | Spanish | 798 | 9.0 | |
| Widowed | 756 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 571 | 6.5 | |
| Female | 582 | 7.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 36 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 696 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 384 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,577 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 282 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,785 | 70.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 172 | 61.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,998 | 100.0 | Dutch | 40 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 907 | 13.0 | English | 335 | 3.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 90 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 288 | 3.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,184 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 108 | 4.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,052 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 454 | 4.7 | |
| With a disability | 1,198 | 23.7 | Italian | 102 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 48.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 3,854 | 76.3 | Norwegian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 68.8 | (X) | Polish | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,199 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 741 | 61.8 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 114 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 108 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,845 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 54 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,103 | 57.7 | Swedish | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,486 | 39.4 | Swiss | 47 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 2,024 | 22.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,462 | 16.5 | United States or American | 2,022 | 21.1 | |
| Same state | 892 | 10.1 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 570 | 6.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 37 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 256 | 2.9 | Other ancestries | 3,025 | 31.6 | |
| 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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