DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Heard 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 | 11,012 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,767 | 100.0 | Native | 10,936 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 229 | 8.3 | Born in United States | 10,892 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 206 | 7.4 | State of residence | 8,580 | 77.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,501 | 54.2 | Different state | 2,312 | 21.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 579 | 20.9 | Born outside United States | 44 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 252 | 9.1 | Foreign born | 76 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 15 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 43 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,020 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 33 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 880 | 12.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,508 | 21.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,929 | 41.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 76 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,022 | 14.6 | Europe | 21 | 27.6 | |
| Associate degree | 168 | 2.4 | Asia | 35 | 46.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 365 | 5.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 148 | 2.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 20 | 26.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.0 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,132 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,269 | 100.0 | English only | 9,899 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 1,443 | 17.5 | Language other than English | 233 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,996 | 60.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 102 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 216 | 2.6 | Spanish | 118 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 649 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 56 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 527 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 89 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 965 | 11.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 40 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 491 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,012 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 300 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,031 | 72.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 157 | 52.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,841 | 100.0 | Dutch | 123 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 807 | 10.3 | English | 776 | 7.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 110 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 405 | 3.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,649 | 100.0 | Greek | 6 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 233 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,182 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 836 | 7.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,380 | 22.3 | Italian | 78 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 40.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,802 | 77.7 | Norwegian | 42 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 75.0 | (X) | Polish | 64 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,194 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 606 | 50.8 | Russian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 156 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 69 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,132 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,334 | 62.5 | Swedish | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,741 | 36.9 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,399 | 13.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,342 | 23.1 | United States or American | 3,229 | 29.3 | |
| Same state | 1,777 | 17.5 | Welsh | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 565 | 5.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 57 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 2,057 | 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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