DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Rabun 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 | 15,050 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,961 | 100.0 | Native | 14,433 | 95.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 241 | 8.1 | Born in United States | 14,394 | 95.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 231 | 7.8 | State of residence | 8,817 | 58.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,450 | 49.0 | Different state | 5,577 | 37.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 769 | 26.0 | Born outside United States | 39 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 270 | 9.1 | Foreign born | 617 | 4.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 436 | 2.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 181 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,675 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 436 | 2.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 908 | 8.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,721 | 16.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,737 | 35.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 617 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,997 | 18.7 | Europe | 100 | 16.2 | |
| Associate degree | 430 | 4.0 | Asia | 24 | 3.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,078 | 10.1 | Africa | 13 | 2.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 804 | 7.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 473 | 76.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.4 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 1.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,202 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,367 | 100.0 | English only | 13,178 | 92.8 | |
| Never married | 2,021 | 16.3 | Language other than English | 1,024 | 7.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,579 | 61.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 522 | 3.7 | |
| Separated | 179 | 1.4 | Spanish | 777 | 5.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,071 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 421 | 3.0 | |
| Female | 887 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 169 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,517 | 12.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 785 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 70 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,050 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 142 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,541 | 76.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 88 | 62.0 | Arab | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 20 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 29 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,743 | 100.0 | Dutch | 259 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,780 | 15.2 | English | 1,726 | 11.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 209 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 31 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,081 | 7.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,858 | 100.0 | Greek | 22 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 261 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,560 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,777 | 11.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,034 | 23.8 | Italian | 282 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 50.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,526 | 76.2 | Norwegian | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 73.9 | (X) | Polish | 101 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,629 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 20 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,158 | 44.0 | Russian | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 630 | 4.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 436 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,202 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,487 | 59.8 | Swedish | 110 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,389 | 37.9 | Swiss | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,724 | 19.2 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,665 | 18.8 | United States or American | 2,540 | 16.9 | |
| Same state | 1,093 | 7.7 | Welsh | 66 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,572 | 11.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 326 | 2.3 | Other ancestries | 2,057 | 13.7 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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