DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: McDuffie 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 | 21,231 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,669 | 100.0 | Native | 21,096 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 490 | 8.6 | Born in United States | 20,945 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 278 | 4.9 | State of residence | 17,398 | 81.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,874 | 50.7 | Different state | 3,547 | 16.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,413 | 24.9 | Born outside United States | 151 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 614 | 10.8 | Foreign born | 135 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 54 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 64 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,442 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 71 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,518 | 11.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,957 | 22.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,731 | 35.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 135 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,245 | 16.7 | Europe | 66 | 48.9 | |
| Associate degree | 421 | 3.1 | Asia | 14 | 10.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,076 | 8.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 494 | 3.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 49 | 36.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.7 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 4.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 19,690 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,320 | 100.0 | English only | 19,208 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 4,124 | 25.3 | Language other than English | 482 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,876 | 54.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 123 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 402 | 2.5 | Spanish | 293 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,333 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 76 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,119 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 95 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,585 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 952 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,231 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 621 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,329 | 81.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 288 | 46.4 | Arab | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 16 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,272 | 100.0 | Dutch | 98 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,024 | 13.3 | English | 1,104 | 5.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 194 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 64 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 743 | 3.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,182 | 100.0 | Greek | 26 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 466 | 9.0 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,700 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,107 | 5.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,892 | 24.7 | Italian | 173 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 53.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,808 | 75.3 | Norwegian | 48 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 74.4 | (X) | Polish | 57 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,632 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 15 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,429 | 54.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 342 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 189 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 12 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 19,690 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 174 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 11,811 | 60.0 | Swedish | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,750 | 39.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 4,680 | 23.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,070 | 15.6 | United States or American | 4,773 | 22.5 | |
| Same state | 2,208 | 11.2 | Welsh | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 862 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 129 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 8,091 | 38.1 | |
| 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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