DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jenkins 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 | 8,575 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,381 | 100.0 | Native | 8,494 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 145 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 8,456 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 103 | 4.3 | State of residence | 7,481 | 87.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,343 | 56.4 | Different state | 975 | 11.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 523 | 22.0 | Born outside United States | 38 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 267 | 11.2 | Foreign born | 81 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 81 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,335 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 81 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 916 | 17.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,110 | 20.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,753 | 32.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 81 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 800 | 15.0 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 179 | 3.4 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 356 | 6.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 221 | 4.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 81 | 100.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 62.0 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,979 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,529 | 100.0 | English only | 7,641 | 95.8 | |
| Never married | 1,886 | 28.9 | Language other than English | 338 | 4.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,914 | 44.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 150 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 198 | 3.0 | Spanish | 320 | 4.0 | |
| Widowed | 719 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 144 | 1.8 | |
| Female | 561 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 812 | 12.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 441 | 6.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,575 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 279 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,345 | 74.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 170 | 60.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,121 | 100.0 | Dutch | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 778 | 12.7 | English | 571 | 6.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 83 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 206 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,250 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 225 | 10.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,522 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 482 | 5.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,050 | 23.2 | Italian | 66 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 46.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,472 | 76.8 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 71.7 | (X) | Polish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,193 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 750 | 62.9 | Russian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 88 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 112 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,979 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 82 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,911 | 61.5 | Swedish | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,893 | 36.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,655 | 20.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,238 | 15.5 | United States or American | 1,353 | 15.8 | |
| Same state | 897 | 11.2 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 341 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 175 | 2.2 | Other ancestries | 3,246 | 37.9 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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