DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jones 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 | 23,639 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,342 | 100.0 | Native | 23,407 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 358 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 23,239 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 378 | 6.0 | State of residence | 19,241 | 81.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,178 | 50.1 | Different state | 3,998 | 16.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,604 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 168 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 824 | 13.0 | Foreign born | 232 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 121 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 79 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,383 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 153 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,241 | 8.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,164 | 14.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,314 | 41.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 232 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,693 | 17.5 | Europe | 32 | 13.8 | |
| Associate degree | 661 | 4.3 | Asia | 105 | 45.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,453 | 9.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 857 | 5.6 | Oceania | 5 | 2.2 | |
| Latin America | 71 | 30.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.9 | (X) | Northern America | 19 | 8.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 22,130 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,417 | 100.0 | English only | 21,390 | 96.7 | |
| Never married | 4,038 | 21.9 | Language other than English | 740 | 3.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,971 | 59.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 276 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 337 | 1.8 | Spanish | 478 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,188 | 6.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 177 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 1,029 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 148 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,883 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 955 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 101 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 63 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 23,639 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 496 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 18,364 | 77.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 217 | 43.8 | Arab | 43 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 29 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,203 | 100.0 | Dutch | 176 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,143 | 12.5 | English | 1,862 | 7.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 292 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 36 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 923 | 3.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,931 | 100.0 | Greek | 32 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 532 | 9.0 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,679 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,568 | 6.6 | |
| With a disability | 2,871 | 21.0 | Italian | 376 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 53.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 10,808 | 79.0 | Norwegian | 71 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 75.8 | (X) | Polish | 50 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,188 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 20 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 838 | 38.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 308 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 266 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 22,130 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 188 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,047 | 63.5 | Swedish | 61 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,969 | 36.0 | Swiss | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,712 | 12.3 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,257 | 23.8 | United States or American | 4,327 | 18.3 | |
| Same state | 4,254 | 19.2 | Welsh | 82 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,003 | 4.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 114 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 7,580 | 32.1 | |
| 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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