DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Haralson 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 | 25,690 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,956 | 100.0 | Native | 25,458 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 537 | 9.0 | Born in United States | 25,318 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 344 | 5.8 | State of residence | 19,858 | 77.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,076 | 51.6 | Different state | 5,460 | 21.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,364 | 22.9 | Born outside United States | 140 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 635 | 10.7 | Foreign born | 232 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 80 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 116 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,814 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 116 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,299 | 13.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,920 | 23.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,075 | 36.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 232 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,511 | 14.9 | Europe | 90 | 38.8 | |
| Associate degree | 491 | 2.9 | Asia | 44 | 19.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 931 | 5.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 587 | 3.5 | Oceania | 3 | 1.3 | |
| Latin America | 88 | 37.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.0 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 3.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,915 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,128 | 100.0 | English only | 23,405 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 3,746 | 18.6 | Language other than English | 510 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,899 | 59.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 178 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 428 | 2.1 | Spanish | 334 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,715 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 140 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,513 | 7.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 128 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 2,340 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,187 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 46 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 25,690 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 628 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,793 | 69.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 291 | 46.3 | Arab | 56 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 26 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,976 | 100.0 | Dutch | 403 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,301 | 12.1 | English | 2,128 | 8.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 178 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 53 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,186 | 4.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,936 | 100.0 | Greek | 65 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 467 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 54 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,497 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,443 | 9.5 | |
| With a disability | 3,618 | 25.0 | Italian | 147 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 40.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,879 | 75.0 | Norwegian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 78.1 | (X) | Polish | 48 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,181 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,748 | 55.0 | Russian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 453 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 369 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 9 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,915 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,979 | 58.5 | Swedish | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,848 | 41.2 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 4,931 | 20.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,917 | 20.6 | United States or American | 6,404 | 24.9 | |
| Same state | 3,879 | 16.2 | Welsh | 51 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,038 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 88 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 3,616 | 14.1 | |
| 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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