DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Toombs 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 | 26,067 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,704 | 100.0 | Native | 24,535 | 94.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 528 | 7.9 | Born in United States | 24,427 | 93.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 498 | 7.4 | State of residence | 20,236 | 77.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,387 | 50.5 | Different state | 4,191 | 16.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,560 | 23.3 | Born outside United States | 108 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 731 | 10.9 | Foreign born | 1,532 | 5.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,037 | 4.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 333 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,212 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,199 | 4.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,842 | 11.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,455 | 21.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,669 | 35.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,532 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,519 | 15.5 | Europe | 50 | 3.3 | |
| Associate degree | 672 | 4.1 | Asia | 81 | 5.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,367 | 8.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 688 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,363 | 89.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.3 | (X) | Northern America | 38 | 2.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,987 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 19,834 | 100.0 | English only | 21,538 | 89.8 | |
| Never married | 4,629 | 23.3 | Language other than English | 2,449 | 10.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,659 | 53.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,219 | 5.1 | |
| Separated | 460 | 2.3 | Spanish | 2,255 | 9.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,824 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,158 | 4.8 | |
| Female | 1,568 | 7.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 94 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 2,262 | 11.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,311 | 6.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 93 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 35 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 26,067 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 752 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 20,784 | 79.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 473 | 62.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 13 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 34 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,629 | 100.0 | Dutch | 61 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,060 | 11.1 | English | 1,452 | 5.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 298 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 49 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 630 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,359 | 100.0 | Greek | 11 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 593 | 9.3 | Hungarian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,307 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,521 | 5.8 | |
| With a disability | 3,653 | 25.5 | Italian | 135 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 54.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,654 | 74.5 | Norwegian | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.0 | (X) | Polish | 26 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,874 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 22 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,420 | 49.4 | Russian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 294 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 357 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,987 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 216 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,052 | 58.6 | Swedish | 35 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,462 | 39.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 5,261 | 21.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,201 | 17.5 | United States or American | 6,865 | 26.3 | |
| Same state | 2,467 | 10.3 | Welsh | 38 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,734 | 7.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 473 | 2.0 | Other ancestries | 8,666 | 33.2 | |
| 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)
