DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Oglethorpe 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 | 12,635 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,078 | 100.0 | Native | 12,528 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 241 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 12,467 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 114 | 3.7 | State of residence | 10,024 | 79.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,584 | 51.5 | Different state | 2,443 | 19.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 698 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 61 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 441 | 14.3 | Foreign born | 107 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 47 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 53 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,436 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 54 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 809 | 9.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,546 | 18.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,158 | 37.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 107 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,297 | 15.4 | Europe | 41 | 38.3 | |
| Associate degree | 308 | 3.7 | Asia | 11 | 10.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 850 | 10.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 468 | 5.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 53 | 49.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.1 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,789 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,953 | 100.0 | English only | 11,510 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 2,073 | 20.8 | Language other than English | 279 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,857 | 58.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 100 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 224 | 2.3 | Spanish | 167 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 725 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 70 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 577 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 80 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,074 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 640 | 6.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,635 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 395 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,348 | 74.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 194 | 49.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 3 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,417 | 100.0 | Dutch | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,133 | 12.0 | English | 1,164 | 9.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 127 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 627 | 5.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,802 | 100.0 | Greek | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 315 | 11.2 | Hungarian | 42 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,417 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 967 | 7.7 | |
| With a disability | 1,894 | 25.5 | Italian | 139 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 58.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,523 | 74.5 | Norwegian | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 77.7 | (X) | Polish | 157 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,517 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 780 | 51.4 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 297 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 214 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,789 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 109 | 0.9 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,814 | 66.3 | Swedish | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,877 | 32.9 | Swiss | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,307 | 11.1 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,570 | 21.8 | United States or American | 2,800 | 22.2 | |
| Same state | 2,103 | 17.8 | Welsh | 74 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 467 | 4.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 98 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 2,483 | 19.7 | |
| 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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