DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pulaski 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 | 9,588 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,205 | 100.0 | Native | 9,336 | 97.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 206 | 9.3 | Born in United States | 9,307 | 97.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 143 | 6.5 | State of residence | 7,486 | 78.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 958 | 43.4 | Different state | 1,821 | 19.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 587 | 26.6 | Born outside United States | 29 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 311 | 14.1 | Foreign born | 252 | 2.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 156 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 32 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,445 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 220 | 2.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 570 | 8.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,147 | 17.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,330 | 36.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 252 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,317 | 20.4 | Europe | 27 | 10.7 | |
| Associate degree | 250 | 3.9 | Asia | 22 | 8.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 536 | 8.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 295 | 4.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 175 | 69.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.4 | (X) | Northern America | 28 | 11.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,961 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,759 | 100.0 | English only | 8,307 | 92.7 | |
| Never married | 1,881 | 24.2 | Language other than English | 654 | 7.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,192 | 54.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 236 | 2.6 | |
| Separated | 236 | 3.0 | Spanish | 558 | 6.2 | |
| Widowed | 701 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 214 | 2.4 | |
| Female | 656 | 8.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 63 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 749 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 483 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,588 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 191 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,734 | 80.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 79 | 41.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 8 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,363 | 100.0 | Dutch | 43 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 903 | 12.3 | English | 640 | 6.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 127 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 12 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 300 | 3.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,038 | 100.0 | Greek | 22 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 141 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,642 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 712 | 7.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,091 | 23.5 | Italian | 98 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 59.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,551 | 76.5 | Norwegian | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 79.5 | (X) | Polish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,166 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 11 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 637 | 54.6 | Russian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 122 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 171 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,961 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 56 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,290 | 59.0 | Swedish | 52 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,538 | 39.5 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,238 | 13.8 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,300 | 25.7 | United States or American | 1,652 | 17.2 | |
| Same state | 1,681 | 18.8 | Welsh | 15 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 619 | 6.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 133 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 3,638 | 37.9 | |
| 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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