DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Forsyth 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 | 98,407 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 23,873 | 100.0 | Native | 92,524 | 94.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 3,262 | 13.7 | Born in United States | 91,805 | 93.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,641 | 6.9 | State of residence | 48,487 | 49.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 11,752 | 49.2 | Different state | 43,318 | 44.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,240 | 17.8 | Born outside United States | 719 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,978 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 5,883 | 6.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,284 | 3.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,576 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 65,027 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4,307 | 4.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,617 | 5.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,669 | 8.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 15,272 | 23.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 5,883 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 14,062 | 21.6 | Europe | 1,267 | 21.5 | |
| Associate degree | 3,917 | 6.0 | Asia | 701 | 11.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 16,950 | 26.1 | Africa | 178 | 3.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 5,540 | 8.5 | Oceania | 34 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 3,289 | 55.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.7 | (X) | Northern America | 414 | 7.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 34.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 88,989 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 74,267 | 100.0 | English only | 81,312 | 91.4 | |
| Never married | 12,173 | 16.4 | Language other than English | 7,677 | 8.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 52,660 | 70.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,038 | 4.5 | |
| Separated | 678 | 0.9 | Spanish | 5,210 | 5.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,752 | 3.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,241 | 3.6 | |
| Female | 2,409 | 3.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,828 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 6,004 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 530 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 3,221 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 490 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 185 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 98,407 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,442 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 93,682 | 95.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 514 | 35.6 | Arab | 307 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 318 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 221 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 70,896 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,546 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,619 | 12.2 | English | 13,779 | 14.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,672 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 740 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 12,993 | 13.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 20,461 | 100.0 | Greek | 342 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,153 | 5.6 | Hungarian | 651 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 61,295 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 13,394 | 13.6 | |
| With a disability | 8,468 | 13.8 | Italian | 4,176 | 4.2 | |
| Percent employed | 64.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 180 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 52,827 | 86.2 | Norwegian | 879 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 80.5 | (X) | Polish | 2,087 | 2.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,779 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 121 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,771 | 40.9 | Russian | 583 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,577 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,117 | 3.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 119 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 88,989 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 104 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 36,143 | 40.6 | Swedish | 788 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 50,603 | 56.9 | Swiss | 133 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 10,404 | 11.7 | Ukrainian | 249 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 40,199 | 45.2 | United States or American | 15,792 | 16.0 | |
| Same state | 23,474 | 26.4 | Welsh | 678 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 16,725 | 18.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 65 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,243 | 2.5 | Other ancestries | 15,071 | 15.3 | |
| 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)
