DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Talbot 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 | 6,498 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,505 | 100.0 | Native | 6,454 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 91 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 6,403 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 5.7 | State of residence | 5,661 | 87.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 814 | 54.1 | Different state | 742 | 11.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 336 | 22.3 | Born outside United States | 51 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 178 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 44 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 25 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,403 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 19 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 571 | 13.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 981 | 22.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,773 | 40.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 44 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 588 | 13.4 | Europe | 38 | 86.4 | |
| Associate degree | 143 | 3.2 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 202 | 4.6 | Africa | 2 | 4.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 145 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 4 | 9.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,101 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,174 | 100.0 | English only | 5,987 | 98.1 | |
| Never married | 1,536 | 29.7 | Language other than English | 114 | 1.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,551 | 49.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 35 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 220 | 4.3 | Spanish | 58 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 493 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 416 | 8.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 51 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 374 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 198 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,498 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 275 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,022 | 77.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 108 | 39.3 | Arab | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,930 | 100.0 | Dutch | 33 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 605 | 12.3 | English | 238 | 3.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 31 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 19 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 127 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,418 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 110 | 7.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,733 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 249 | 3.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,115 | 29.9 | Italian | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 49.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,618 | 70.1 | Norwegian | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 68.8 | (X) | Polish | 27 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 933 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 518 | 55.5 | Russian | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 71 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 36 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,101 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 45 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,379 | 71.8 | Swedish | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,694 | 27.8 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 893 | 14.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 801 | 13.1 | United States or American | 675 | 10.4 | |
| Same state | 598 | 9.8 | Welsh | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 203 | 3.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 28 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 3,414 | 52.5 | |
| 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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