DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Meriwether 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 | 22,534 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,667 | 100.0 | Native | 22,371 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 535 | 9.4 | Born in United States | 22,247 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 302 | 5.3 | State of residence | 18,981 | 84.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,904 | 51.2 | Different state | 3,266 | 14.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,453 | 25.6 | Born outside United States | 124 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 473 | 8.3 | Foreign born | 163 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 64 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 57 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,434 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 106 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,727 | 12.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,214 | 22.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,146 | 35.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 163 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,305 | 16.0 | Europe | 60 | 36.8 | |
| Associate degree | 483 | 3.3 | Asia | 7 | 4.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 932 | 6.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 627 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 94 | 57.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.8 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 1.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 21,017 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 17,506 | 100.0 | English only | 20,565 | 97.8 | |
| Never married | 4,714 | 26.9 | Language other than English | 452 | 2.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,815 | 50.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 186 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 561 | 3.2 | Spanish | 273 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 1,686 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 134 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,443 | 8.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 162 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,730 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 863 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,534 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 899 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,506 | 73.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 420 | 46.7 | Arab | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 40 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,471 | 100.0 | Dutch | 154 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,923 | 11.7 | English | 1,079 | 4.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 135 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 15 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 789 | 3.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,384 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 547 | 10.2 | Hungarian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,197 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,209 | 5.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,349 | 27.5 | Italian | 108 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 51.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,848 | 72.5 | Norwegian | 49 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 73.9 | (X) | Polish | 129 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,010 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,672 | 55.5 | Russian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 237 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 234 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 21,017 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 259 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,356 | 63.5 | Swedish | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,474 | 35.6 | Swiss | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,586 | 17.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,888 | 18.5 | United States or American | 3,691 | 16.4 | |
| Same state | 2,943 | 14.0 | Welsh | 86 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 945 | 4.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 60 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 187 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 8,150 | 36.2 | |
| 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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