DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Macon 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 | 14,074 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,765 | 100.0 | Native | 13,821 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 183 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 13,784 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 216 | 5.7 | State of residence | 12,420 | 88.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,775 | 47.1 | Different state | 1,364 | 9.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,049 | 27.9 | Born outside United States | 37 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 542 | 14.4 | Foreign born | 253 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 162 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 35 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,844 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 218 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,435 | 16.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,818 | 20.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,112 | 35.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 253 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,388 | 15.7 | Europe | 13 | 5.1 | |
| Associate degree | 207 | 2.3 | Asia | 17 | 6.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 623 | 7.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 261 | 3.0 | Oceania | 5 | 2.0 | |
| Latin America | 214 | 84.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.2 | (X) | Northern America | 4 | 1.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,041 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,905 | 100.0 | English only | 12,464 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 3,524 | 32.3 | Language other than English | 577 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,928 | 45.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 254 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 426 | 3.9 | Spanish | 304 | 2.3 | |
| Widowed | 1,055 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 178 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 831 | 7.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 237 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 972 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 67 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 435 | 4.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,074 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 502 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,788 | 76.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 319 | 63.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,173 | 100.0 | Dutch | 51 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,254 | 12.3 | English | 416 | 3.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 44 | 0.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 22 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 454 | 3.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,462 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 345 | 10.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,983 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 498 | 3.5 | |
| With a disability | 2,147 | 30.7 | Italian | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 45.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,836 | 69.3 | Norwegian | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 68.4 | (X) | Polish | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,609 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 758 | 47.1 | Russian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 79 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 74 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,041 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 196 | 1.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,888 | 68.2 | Swedish | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,946 | 30.3 | Swiss | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,399 | 18.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,547 | 11.9 | United States or American | 1,384 | 9.8 | |
| Same state | 1,112 | 8.5 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 435 | 3.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 207 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 7,449 | 52.9 | |
| 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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