DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Newton 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 | 62,001 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 16,015 | 100.0 | Native | 60,475 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,337 | 8.3 | Born in United States | 60,035 | 96.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 973 | 6.1 | State of residence | 43,836 | 70.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,178 | 51.1 | Different state | 16,199 | 26.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,268 | 20.4 | Born outside United States | 440 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,259 | 14.1 | Foreign born | 1,526 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 669 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 706 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 39,144 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 820 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,988 | 7.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,912 | 17.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,601 | 34.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,526 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 8,341 | 21.3 | Europe | 475 | 31.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,610 | 4.1 | Asia | 352 | 23.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,715 | 9.5 | Africa | 36 | 2.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,977 | 5.1 | Oceania | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 614 | 40.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.7 | (X) | Northern America | 46 | 3.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 57,211 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 47,333 | 100.0 | English only | 54,981 | 96.1 | |
| Never married | 10,589 | 22.4 | Language other than English | 2,230 | 3.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 27,897 | 58.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 891 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 848 | 1.8 | Spanish | 1,096 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,933 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 440 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 2,297 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 818 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 5,066 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 259 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,698 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 309 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 185 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 62,001 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,562 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 51,359 | 82.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 712 | 45.6 | Arab | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 120 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 90 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 44,856 | 100.0 | Dutch | 635 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,646 | 12.6 | English | 5,041 | 8.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 973 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 184 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,599 | 7.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 15,027 | 100.0 | Greek | 58 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,412 | 9.4 | Hungarian | 161 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 35,802 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,821 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 7,639 | 21.3 | Italian | 1,183 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 59.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 27 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 28,163 | 78.7 | Norwegian | 179 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 77.7 | (X) | Polish | 560 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,871 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,683 | 45.7 | Russian | 108 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,295 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,048 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 32 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 57,211 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 367 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 28,697 | 50.2 | Swedish | 278 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 27,905 | 48.8 | Swiss | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 11,173 | 19.5 | Ukrainian | 195 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 16,732 | 29.2 | United States or American | 10,871 | 17.5 | |
| Same state | 12,560 | 22.0 | Welsh | 318 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 4,172 | 7.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 163 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 609 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 16,979 | 27.4 | |
| 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)
