DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Murray 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 | 36,506 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,373 | 100.0 | Native | 35,185 | 96.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 475 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 34,975 | 95.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 511 | 6.1 | State of residence | 25,952 | 71.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,785 | 57.1 | Different state | 9,023 | 24.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,823 | 21.8 | Born outside United States | 210 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 779 | 9.3 | Foreign born | 1,321 | 3.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 744 | 2.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 286 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,803 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,035 | 2.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,942 | 17.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,939 | 21.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,069 | 35.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,321 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,371 | 14.8 | Europe | 53 | 4.0 | |
| Associate degree | 842 | 3.7 | Asia | 71 | 5.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,112 | 4.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 528 | 2.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,187 | 89.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 61.1 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 0.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 33,542 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 27,892 | 100.0 | English only | 31,369 | 93.5 | |
| Never married | 5,096 | 18.3 | Language other than English | 2,173 | 6.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 17,279 | 61.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,251 | 3.7 | |
| Separated | 532 | 1.9 | Spanish | 1,981 | 5.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,361 | 4.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,200 | 3.6 | |
| Female | 1,156 | 4.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 93 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 3,624 | 13.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 2,033 | 7.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 69 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 36,506 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,036 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 25,421 | 69.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 520 | 50.2 | Arab | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 32 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 26,331 | 100.0 | Dutch | 320 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,740 | 10.4 | English | 2,118 | 5.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 409 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 49 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,186 | 6.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,719 | 100.0 | Greek | 48 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 889 | 10.2 | Hungarian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 21,813 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,056 | 8.4 | |
| With a disability | 5,812 | 26.6 | Italian | 393 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 54.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 16,001 | 73.4 | Norwegian | 41 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 81.0 | (X) | Polish | 160 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,806 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,612 | 57.4 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 247 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 325 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 33,542 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 19,077 | 56.9 | Swedish | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,049 | 41.9 | Swiss | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 7,050 | 21.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,999 | 20.9 | United States or American | 9,845 | 27.0 | |
| Same state | 5,058 | 15.1 | Welsh | 86 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,941 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 416 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 5,991 | 16.4 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
