DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Elbert 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 | 20,511 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,834 | 100.0 | Native | 20,129 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 299 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 20,089 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 212 | 4.4 | State of residence | 16,098 | 78.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,530 | 52.3 | Different state | 3,991 | 19.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,301 | 26.9 | Born outside United States | 40 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 492 | 10.2 | Foreign born | 382 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 165 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 131 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,617 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 251 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,504 | 11.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,959 | 21.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,342 | 39.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 382 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,943 | 14.3 | Europe | 56 | 14.7 | |
| Associate degree | 528 | 3.9 | Asia | 51 | 13.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 858 | 6.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 483 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 275 | 72.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.2 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 19,247 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,206 | 100.0 | English only | 18,592 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 3,852 | 23.8 | Language other than English | 655 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,042 | 55.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 271 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 502 | 3.1 | Spanish | 480 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,426 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 229 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 1,222 | 7.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 155 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,384 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 720 | 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 | 20,511 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 523 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,261 | 74.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 267 | 51.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 33 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,167 | 100.0 | Dutch | 111 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,836 | 12.1 | English | 1,212 | 5.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 185 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 15 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 739 | 3.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,805 | 100.0 | Greek | 30 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 457 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,235 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 935 | 4.6 | |
| With a disability | 2,810 | 25.0 | Italian | 177 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 45.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,425 | 75.0 | Norwegian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 76.6 | (X) | Polish | 94 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,932 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 28 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,456 | 49.7 | Russian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 333 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 222 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 19,247 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 75 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,144 | 63.1 | Swedish | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,933 | 36.0 | Swiss | 33 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 4,236 | 22.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,697 | 14.0 | United States or American | 4,057 | 19.8 | |
| Same state | 1,634 | 8.5 | Welsh | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,063 | 5.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 170 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 6,899 | 33.6 | |
| 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
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