DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Dougherty 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 | 96,065 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 28,401 | 100.0 | Native | 94,399 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,212 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 93,838 | 97.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,311 | 4.6 | State of residence | 73,643 | 76.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 12,455 | 43.9 | Different state | 20,195 | 21.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,208 | 21.9 | Born outside United States | 561 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 6,215 | 21.9 | Foreign born | 1,666 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 977 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 620 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 58,024 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,046 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,016 | 8.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,270 | 17.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 16,397 | 28.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,666 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 13,354 | 23.0 | Europe | 221 | 13.3 | |
| Associate degree | 2,640 | 4.5 | Asia | 644 | 38.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 6,618 | 11.4 | Africa | 129 | 7.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,729 | 6.4 | Oceania | 11 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 602 | 36.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.7 | (X) | Northern America | 59 | 3.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 88,735 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 74,089 | 100.0 | English only | 84,829 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 24,471 | 33.0 | Language other than English | 3,906 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 32,652 | 44.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,517 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 2,576 | 3.5 | Spanish | 2,236 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 6,101 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 873 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 5,168 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 876 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 8,289 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 254 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 5,203 | 7.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 633 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 370 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 96,065 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,946 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 77,046 | 80.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,708 | 58.0 | Arab | 41 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 70 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 41 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 68,385 | 100.0 | Dutch | 277 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 9,503 | 13.9 | English | 4,585 | 4.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 842 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 205 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,226 | 3.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 23,780 | 100.0 | Greek | 47 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,465 | 10.4 | Hungarian | 110 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 50,930 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,762 | 3.9 | |
| With a disability | 12,742 | 25.0 | Italian | 797 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 48.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 18 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 38,188 | 75.0 | Norwegian | 263 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 72.6 | (X) | Polish | 425 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 10,902 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,435 | 49.9 | Russian | 47 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,215 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 934 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 16 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 88,735 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,452 | 1.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 46,264 | 52.1 | Swedish | 198 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 40,998 | 46.2 | Swiss | 78 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 26,224 | 29.6 | Ukrainian | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 14,774 | 16.6 | United States or American | 8,102 | 8.4 | |
| Same state | 8,645 | 9.7 | Welsh | 239 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 6,129 | 6.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 225 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,473 | 1.7 | Other ancestries | 49,811 | 51.9 | |
| 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)
