DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Chatham 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 | 232,048 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 64,990 | 100.0 | Native | 222,839 | 96.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,002 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 219,870 | 94.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,570 | 5.5 | State of residence | 144,471 | 62.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 27,602 | 42.5 | Different state | 75,399 | 32.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 13,203 | 20.3 | Born outside United States | 2,969 | 1.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 15,613 | 24.0 | Foreign born | 9,209 | 4.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 4,658 | 2.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 3,851 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 147,849 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 5,358 | 2.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 8,327 | 5.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 20,952 | 14.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 39,766 | 26.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 9,209 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 34,406 | 23.3 | Europe | 2,004 | 21.8 | |
| Associate degree | 7,414 | 5.0 | Asia | 3,232 | 35.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 24,586 | 16.6 | Africa | 609 | 6.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 12,398 | 8.4 | Oceania | 89 | 1.0 | |
| Latin America | 2,789 | 30.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.2 | (X) | Northern America | 486 | 5.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 25.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 216,600 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 183,143 | 100.0 | English only | 202,148 | 93.3 | |
| Never married | 54,284 | 29.6 | Language other than English | 14,452 | 6.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 89,769 | 49.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,673 | 2.6 | |
| Separated | 4,741 | 2.6 | Spanish | 6,533 | 3.0 | |
| Widowed | 13,606 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,611 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 11,251 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 4,207 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 20,743 | 11.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,158 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 12,178 | 6.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,923 | 1.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,767 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 232,048 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 6,238 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 208,606 | 89.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,139 | 50.3 | Arab | 573 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 492 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 327 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 169,654 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,111 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 27,167 | 16.0 | English | 19,051 | 8.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,341 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 934 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 18,504 | 8.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 52,636 | 100.0 | Greek | 843 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,862 | 9.2 | Hungarian | 505 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 126,885 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 19,104 | 8.2 | |
| With a disability | 27,889 | 22.0 | Italian | 4,845 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 59.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 232 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 98,996 | 78.0 | Norwegian | 1,033 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 75.4 | (X) | Polish | 2,435 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 29,282 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 192 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 13,272 | 45.3 | Russian | 971 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,441 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,447 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 195 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 216,600 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3,127 | 1.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 109,332 | 50.5 | Swedish | 1,030 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 101,618 | 46.9 | Swiss | 372 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 58,763 | 27.1 | Ukrainian | 172 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 42,855 | 19.8 | United States or American | 19,241 | 8.3 | |
| Same state | 13,011 | 6.0 | Welsh | 790 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 29,844 | 13.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 916 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5,650 | 2.6 | Other ancestries | 96,382 | 41.5 | |
| 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)
