DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Gwinnett 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 | 588,448 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 161,510 | 100.0 | Native | 488,930 | 83.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 14,265 | 8.8 | Born in United States | 481,048 | 81.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 9,932 | 6.1 | State of residence | 219,543 | 37.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 75,344 | 46.6 | Different state | 261,505 | 44.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 34,275 | 21.2 | Born outside United States | 7,882 | 1.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 27,694 | 17.1 | Foreign born | 99,518 | 16.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 58,601 | 10.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 29,838 | 5.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 372,628 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 69,680 | 11.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 16,996 | 4.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 30,376 | 8.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 81,979 | 22.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 99,518 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 89,224 | 23.9 | Europe | 12,382 | 12.4 | |
| Associate degree | 27,146 | 7.3 | Asia | 34,111 | 34.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 89,735 | 24.1 | Africa | 5,834 | 5.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 37,172 | 10.0 | Oceania | 181 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 45,599 | 45.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.3 | (X) | Northern America | 1,411 | 1.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 34.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 541,751 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 448,487 | 100.0 | English only | 426,736 | 78.8 | |
| Never married | 111,865 | 24.9 | Language other than English | 115,015 | 21.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 273,532 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 61,048 | 11.3 | |
| Separated | 6,981 | 1.6 | Spanish | 56,827 | 10.5 | |
| Widowed | 15,281 | 3.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34,450 | 6.4 | |
| Female | 12,776 | 2.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 26,829 | 5.0 | |
| Divorced | 40,828 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,831 | 1.8 | |
| Female | 24,844 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 26,524 | 4.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15,650 | 2.9 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 588,448 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 10,675 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 572,216 | 97.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,711 | 34.8 | Arab | 2,280 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,911 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,469 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 422,432 | 100.0 | Dutch | 6,778 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 45,980 | 10.9 | English | 62,144 | 10.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 12,664 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,986 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 61,820 | 10.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 139,324 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,976 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 10,127 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 1,833 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 367,984 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 59,355 | 10.1 | |
| With a disability | 53,871 | 14.6 | Italian | 19,492 | 3.3 | |
| Percent employed | 68.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 807 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 314,113 | 85.4 | Norwegian | 3,873 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 80.7 | (X) | Polish | 11,172 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 30,104 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 984 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 12,649 | 42.0 | Russian | 3,851 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 12,148 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 13,689 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 837 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 541,751 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 8,624 | 1.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 225,905 | 41.7 | Swedish | 4,521 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 285,355 | 52.7 | Swiss | 1,152 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 107,974 | 19.9 | Ukrainian | 1,597 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 177,381 | 32.7 | United States or American | 61,719 | 10.5 | |
| Same state | 82,097 | 15.2 | Welsh | 3,198 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 95,284 | 17.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4,085 | 0.7 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 30,491 | 5.6 | Other ancestries | 205,251 | 34.9 | |
| 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)
