DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lanier 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 | 7,241 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,834 | 100.0 | Native | 7,164 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 96 | 5.2 | Born in United States | 7,051 | 97.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 143 | 7.8 | State of residence | 5,208 | 71.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 898 | 49.0 | Different state | 1,843 | 25.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 489 | 26.7 | Born outside United States | 113 | 1.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 208 | 11.3 | Foreign born | 77 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 48 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 21 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,487 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 56 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 479 | 10.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,000 | 22.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,535 | 34.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 77 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 867 | 19.3 | Europe | 16 | 20.8 | |
| Associate degree | 212 | 4.7 | Asia | 10 | 13.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 248 | 5.5 | Africa | 10 | 13.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 146 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 41 | 53.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.0 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,715 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,617 | 100.0 | English only | 6,538 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 1,272 | 22.6 | Language other than English | 177 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,190 | 56.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 54 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 113 | 2.0 | Spanish | 124 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 479 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 44 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 377 | 6.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 31 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 563 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 323 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,241 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 175 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,100 | 84.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 99 | 56.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,156 | 100.0 | Dutch | 47 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 832 | 16.1 | English | 428 | 5.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 109 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 26 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 331 | 4.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,763 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 114 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,869 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 644 | 8.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,018 | 26.3 | Italian | 51 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 48.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,851 | 73.7 | Norwegian | 38 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 75.2 | (X) | Polish | 23 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 698 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 376 | 53.9 | Russian | 32 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 36 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 82 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,715 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 32 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,513 | 52.3 | Swedish | 30 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,049 | 45.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,043 | 15.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,006 | 29.9 | United States or American | 1,566 | 21.6 | |
| Same state | 1,206 | 18.0 | Welsh | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 800 | 11.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 153 | 2.3 | Other ancestries | 2,610 | 36.0 | |
| 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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