DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Long 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 | 10,304 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,788 | 100.0 | Native | 9,751 | 94.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 291 | 10.4 | Born in United States | 9,471 | 91.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 237 | 8.5 | State of residence | 5,484 | 53.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,332 | 47.8 | Different state | 3,987 | 38.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 642 | 23.0 | Born outside United States | 280 | 2.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 286 | 10.3 | Foreign born | 553 | 5.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 358 | 3.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 109 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,527 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 444 | 4.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 551 | 10.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 870 | 15.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,300 | 41.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 553 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,247 | 22.6 | Europe | 43 | 7.8 | |
| Associate degree | 236 | 4.3 | Asia | 63 | 11.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 199 | 3.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 124 | 2.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 440 | 79.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.3 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 1.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 5.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,187 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,410 | 100.0 | English only | 8,326 | 90.6 | |
| Never married | 1,598 | 21.6 | Language other than English | 861 | 9.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,460 | 60.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 480 | 5.2 | |
| Separated | 262 | 3.5 | Spanish | 699 | 7.6 | |
| Widowed | 284 | 3.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 415 | 4.5 | |
| Female | 268 | 3.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 111 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 806 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 54 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 402 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 49 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,304 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 217 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,715 | 84.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 139 | 64.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 19 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,263 | 100.0 | Dutch | 58 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,175 | 18.8 | English | 467 | 4.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 148 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 27 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 636 | 6.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,674 | 100.0 | Greek | 13 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 191 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,268 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 697 | 6.8 | |
| With a disability | 971 | 18.4 | Italian | 231 | 2.2 | |
| Percent employed | 53.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,297 | 81.6 | Norwegian | 37 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 69.7 | (X) | Polish | 122 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 580 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 327 | 56.4 | Russian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 132 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 140 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,187 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,319 | 47.0 | Swedish | 38 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,432 | 48.2 | Swiss | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 951 | 10.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,481 | 37.9 | United States or American | 2,084 | 20.2 | |
| Same state | 1,406 | 15.3 | Welsh | 57 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 2,075 | 22.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 436 | 4.7 | Other ancestries | 3,723 | 36.1 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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