DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Early 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 | 12,354 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,276 | 100.0 | Native | 12,262 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 266 | 8.1 | Born in United States | 12,207 | 98.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 254 | 7.8 | State of residence | 9,610 | 77.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,708 | 52.1 | Different state | 2,597 | 21.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 655 | 20.0 | Born outside United States | 55 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 393 | 12.0 | Foreign born | 92 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 59 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 19 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,872 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 73 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,081 | 13.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,404 | 17.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,635 | 33.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 92 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,388 | 17.6 | Europe | 2 | 2.2 | |
| Associate degree | 375 | 4.8 | Asia | 16 | 17.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 591 | 7.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 398 | 5.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 69 | 75.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.4 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 5.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,471 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,370 | 100.0 | English only | 11,178 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 2,388 | 25.5 | Language other than English | 293 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,549 | 48.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 115 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 458 | 4.9 | Spanish | 218 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,198 | 12.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 86 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 964 | 10.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 62 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 777 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 415 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,354 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 320 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,782 | 71.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 143 | 44.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,814 | 100.0 | Dutch | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 916 | 10.4 | English | 657 | 5.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 69 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 53 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 238 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,024 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 258 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,304 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 523 | 4.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,711 | 27.1 | Italian | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 46.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,593 | 72.9 | Norwegian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 76.7 | (X) | Polish | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,886 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,066 | 56.5 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 75 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 65 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,471 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 71 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,876 | 59.9 | Swedish | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,529 | 39.5 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,917 | 25.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,612 | 14.1 | United States or American | 1,690 | 13.7 | |
| Same state | 966 | 8.4 | Welsh | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 646 | 5.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 66 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 5,235 | 42.4 | |
| 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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