DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tift 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 | 38,407 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,744 | 100.0 | Native | 36,294 | 94.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 679 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 36,127 | 94.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 594 | 5.5 | State of residence | 29,076 | 75.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,890 | 45.5 | Different state | 7,051 | 18.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,191 | 20.4 | Born outside United States | 167 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,390 | 22.2 | Foreign born | 2,113 | 5.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,459 | 3.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 365 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 23,433 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,748 | 4.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,733 | 11.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,779 | 20.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,109 | 30.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,113 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,663 | 15.6 | Europe | 106 | 5.0 | |
| Associate degree | 1,486 | 6.3 | Asia | 299 | 14.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,167 | 9.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,496 | 6.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,679 | 79.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.9 | (X) | Northern America | 29 | 1.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 35,439 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 29,565 | 100.0 | English only | 32,313 | 91.2 | |
| Never married | 7,906 | 26.7 | Language other than English | 3,126 | 8.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,910 | 53.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,725 | 4.9 | |
| Separated | 873 | 3.0 | Spanish | 2,631 | 7.4 | |
| Widowed | 2,062 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,534 | 4.3 | |
| Female | 1,686 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 357 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 2,814 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 160 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,760 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 94 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 38,407 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 954 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 30,882 | 80.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 597 | 62.6 | Arab | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 36 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 14 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 27,718 | 100.0 | Dutch | 193 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,127 | 11.3 | English | 2,922 | 7.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 245 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 47 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,300 | 3.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,899 | 100.0 | Greek | 49 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,014 | 10.2 | Hungarian | 83 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 20,662 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,176 | 5.7 | |
| With a disability | 4,808 | 23.3 | Italian | 375 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 53.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 15,854 | 76.7 | Norwegian | 45 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 76.9 | (X) | Polish | 208 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,126 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 32 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,137 | 51.8 | Russian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 606 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 417 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 35,439 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 481 | 1.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 19,145 | 54.0 | Swedish | 45 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 15,198 | 42.9 | Swiss | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 9,368 | 26.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,830 | 16.5 | United States or American | 7,665 | 20.0 | |
| Same state | 3,529 | 10.0 | Welsh | 58 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 2,301 | 6.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,096 | 3.1 | Other ancestries | 13,836 | 36.0 | |
| 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)
