DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Charlton 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 | 10,282 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,586 | 100.0 | Native | 10,193 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 115 | 4.4 | Born in United States | 10,148 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 139 | 5.4 | State of residence | 6,140 | 59.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,391 | 53.8 | Different state | 4,008 | 39.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 691 | 26.7 | Born outside United States | 45 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 250 | 9.7 | Foreign born | 89 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 18 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 45 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,404 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 44 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 696 | 10.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,540 | 24.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,695 | 42.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 89 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 905 | 14.1 | Europe | 17 | 19.1 | |
| Associate degree | 161 | 2.5 | Asia | 49 | 55.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 215 | 3.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 192 | 3.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 8 | 9.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.1 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 16.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 6.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,637 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,020 | 100.0 | English only | 9,427 | 97.8 | |
| Never married | 1,451 | 18.1 | Language other than English | 210 | 2.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,108 | 63.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 101 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 250 | 3.1 | Spanish | 84 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 582 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 451 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 65 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 629 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 27 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 379 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 61 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,282 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 266 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,879 | 66.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 117 | 44.0 | Arab | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 12 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,426 | 100.0 | Dutch | 47 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,008 | 13.6 | English | 632 | 6.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 104 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 19 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 405 | 3.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,520 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 224 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,998 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 682 | 6.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,182 | 23.6 | Italian | 120 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 49.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,816 | 76.4 | Norwegian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 67.4 | (X) | Polish | 46 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 960 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 550 | 57.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 64 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 123 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,637 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 40 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,983 | 62.1 | Swedish | 29 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,630 | 37.7 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,298 | 13.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,332 | 24.2 | United States or American | 2,144 | 20.9 | |
| Same state | 758 | 7.9 | Welsh | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 1,574 | 16.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 24 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 2,345 | 22.8 | |
| 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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