DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Gordon 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 | 44,104 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,354 | 100.0 | Native | 41,293 | 93.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 797 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 41,065 | 93.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 601 | 5.8 | State of residence | 30,480 | 69.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,343 | 51.6 | Different state | 10,585 | 24.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,347 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 228 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,266 | 12.2 | Foreign born | 2,811 | 6.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,829 | 4.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 415 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 28,490 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,396 | 5.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,838 | 13.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,875 | 20.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,723 | 34.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,811 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,894 | 17.2 | Europe | 148 | 5.3 | |
| Associate degree | 1,140 | 4.0 | Asia | 176 | 6.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,899 | 6.7 | Africa | 27 | 1.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,121 | 3.9 | Oceania | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 2,432 | 86.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.9 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 0.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 40,940 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 34,503 | 100.0 | English only | 37,279 | 91.1 | |
| Never married | 6,312 | 18.3 | Language other than English | 3,661 | 8.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,788 | 63.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,401 | 5.9 | |
| Separated | 530 | 1.5 | Spanish | 3,239 | 7.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,076 | 6.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,198 | 5.4 | |
| Female | 1,675 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 301 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 3,797 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 139 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,179 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 69 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 44 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 44,104 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,190 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 33,709 | 76.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 653 | 54.9 | Arab | 58 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 91 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 31 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 32,561 | 100.0 | Dutch | 584 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,850 | 11.8 | English | 4,106 | 9.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 674 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 101 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,688 | 6.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,079 | 100.0 | Greek | 27 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 841 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 56 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 26,057 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,627 | 8.2 | |
| With a disability | 5,574 | 21.4 | Italian | 453 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 58.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 33 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 20,483 | 78.6 | Norwegian | 92 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 81.3 | (X) | Polish | 162 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,366 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 34 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,071 | 47.4 | Russian | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 676 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 731 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 40,940 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 58 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 21,638 | 52.9 | Swedish | 108 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 18,218 | 44.5 | Swiss | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 10,027 | 24.5 | Ukrainian | 20 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 8,191 | 20.0 | United States or American | 10,772 | 24.4 | |
| Same state | 4,697 | 11.5 | Welsh | 139 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 3,494 | 8.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 83 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,084 | 2.6 | Other ancestries | 8,239 | 18.7 | |
| 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)
