DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cherokee 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 | 141,903 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 36,937 | 100.0 | Native | 133,630 | 94.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 3,646 | 9.9 | Born in United States | 132,381 | 93.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,394 | 6.5 | State of residence | 70,487 | 49.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 18,071 | 48.9 | Different state | 61,894 | 43.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 7,045 | 19.1 | Born outside United States | 1,249 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 5,781 | 15.7 | Foreign born | 8,273 | 5.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 4,707 | 3.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2,247 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 91,141 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 6,026 | 4.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,279 | 5.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,906 | 9.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 24,882 | 27.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 8,273 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 21,628 | 23.7 | Europe | 1,362 | 16.5 | |
| Associate degree | 5,856 | 6.4 | Asia | 1,261 | 15.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 17,895 | 19.6 | Africa | 91 | 1.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 6,695 | 7.3 | Oceania | 26 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 5,159 | 62.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.4 | (X) | Northern America | 374 | 4.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 27.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 129,888 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 107,482 | 100.0 | English only | 119,438 | 92.0 | |
| Never married | 20,775 | 19.3 | Language other than English | 10,450 | 8.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 71,158 | 66.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,975 | 3.8 | |
| Separated | 1,187 | 1.1 | Spanish | 6,737 | 5.2 | |
| Widowed | 4,130 | 3.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,897 | 3.0 | |
| Female | 3,285 | 3.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,367 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 10,232 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 526 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 6,074 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 922 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 430 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 141,903 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,779 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 132,271 | 93.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,049 | 37.7 | Arab | 560 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 379 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 394 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 101,840 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,255 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 12,824 | 12.6 | English | 19,071 | 13.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,862 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 802 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 18,104 | 12.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 32,899 | 100.0 | Greek | 418 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,329 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 350 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 87,337 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 18,741 | 13.2 | |
| With a disability | 12,386 | 14.2 | Italian | 5,664 | 4.0 | |
| Percent employed | 66.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 201 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 74,951 | 85.8 | Norwegian | 1,048 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 80.9 | (X) | Polish | 2,817 | 2.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,953 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 202 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,819 | 42.7 | Russian | 607 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 3,717 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,511 | 2.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 227 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 129,888 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 242 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 62,490 | 48.1 | Swedish | 1,184 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 64,286 | 49.5 | Swiss | 189 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 18,549 | 14.3 | Ukrainian | 206 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 45,737 | 35.2 | United States or American | 21,540 | 15.2 | |
| Same state | 26,823 | 20.7 | Welsh | 1,118 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 18,914 | 14.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 443 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 3,112 | 2.4 | Other ancestries | 24,419 | 17.2 | |
| 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)
