DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Fayette 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 | 91,263 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 27,262 | 100.0 | Native | 86,657 | 95.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,050 | 7.5 | Born in United States | 85,499 | 93.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,351 | 5.0 | State of residence | 39,579 | 43.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 13,509 | 49.6 | Different state | 45,920 | 50.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,689 | 24.5 | Born outside United States | 1,158 | 1.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,663 | 13.4 | Foreign born | 4,606 | 5.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,020 | 2.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2,146 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 59,016 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,460 | 2.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,313 | 2.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,189 | 5.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 14,174 | 24.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4,606 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 14,725 | 25.0 | Europe | 1,173 | 25.5 | |
| Associate degree | 4,268 | 7.2 | Asia | 1,592 | 34.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 14,111 | 23.9 | Africa | 275 | 6.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 7,236 | 12.3 | Oceania | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 1,239 | 26.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 92.4 | (X) | Northern America | 318 | 6.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 36.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 86,007 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 69,834 | 100.0 | English only | 79,981 | 93.0 | |
| Never married | 13,522 | 19.4 | Language other than English | 6,026 | 7.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 47,573 | 68.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,061 | 2.4 | |
| Separated | 675 | 1.0 | Spanish | 2,295 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 3,299 | 4.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 728 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 2,795 | 4.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,092 | 2.4 | |
| Divorced | 4,765 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 472 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 3,010 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,415 | 1.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 797 | 0.9 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 91,263 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,638 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 89,817 | 98.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 607 | 37.1 | Arab | 213 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 268 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 499 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 64,356 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,381 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 11,490 | 17.9 | English | 11,417 | 12.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,795 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 761 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 11,667 | 12.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 24,029 | 100.0 | Greek | 365 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,250 | 5.2 | Hungarian | 252 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 53,117 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 11,842 | 13.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,896 | 11.1 | Italian | 3,571 | 3.9 | |
| Percent employed | 68.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 127 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 47,221 | 88.9 | Norwegian | 733 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 79.7 | (X) | Polish | 1,913 | 2.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,885 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 103 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,972 | 37.7 | Russian | 245 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,199 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,277 | 2.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 221 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 86,007 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 691 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 44,097 | 51.3 | Swedish | 1,000 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 40,040 | 46.6 | Swiss | 229 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 11,304 | 13.1 | Ukrainian | 132 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 28,736 | 33.4 | United States or American | 12,010 | 13.2 | |
| Same state | 14,005 | 16.3 | Welsh | 533 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 14,731 | 17.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 459 | 0.5 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,870 | 2.2 | Other ancestries | 21,914 | 24.0 | |
| 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)
