DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Walker 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 | 61,053 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 13,598 | 100.0 | Native | 60,454 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 909 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 60,158 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 703 | 5.2 | State of residence | 31,378 | 51.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,058 | 51.9 | Different state | 28,780 | 47.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,245 | 23.9 | Born outside United States | 296 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,683 | 12.4 | Foreign born | 599 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 269 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 217 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 40,837 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 382 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,016 | 12.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,524 | 20.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 14,299 | 35.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 599 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,239 | 17.7 | Europe | 125 | 20.9 | |
| Associate degree | 1,607 | 3.9 | Asia | 228 | 38.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,768 | 6.8 | Africa | 16 | 2.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,384 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 195 | 32.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.8 | (X) | Northern America | 35 | 5.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 57,134 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 48,578 | 100.0 | English only | 55,279 | 96.8 | |
| Never married | 8,637 | 17.8 | Language other than English | 1,855 | 3.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 29,345 | 60.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 745 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 772 | 1.6 | Spanish | 1,067 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 4,241 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 434 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 3,597 | 7.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 588 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 5,583 | 11.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 205 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 3,087 | 6.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 169 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 106 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 61,053 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,534 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 45,621 | 74.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 718 | 46.8 | Arab | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 23 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 28 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 45,987 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,101 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,011 | 13.1 | English | 5,392 | 8.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 682 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 111 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,174 | 6.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 13,267 | 100.0 | Greek | 35 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,392 | 10.5 | Hungarian | 35 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 34,773 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,502 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 8,852 | 25.5 | Italian | 513 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 53.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 25,921 | 74.5 | Norwegian | 129 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 78.3 | (X) | Polish | 272 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,057 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 42 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,164 | 51.7 | Russian | 65 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 971 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,123 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 57,134 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 107 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 35,200 | 61.6 | Swedish | 237 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 21,604 | 37.8 | Swiss | 95 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 11,395 | 19.9 | Ukrainian | 26 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 10,209 | 17.9 | United States or American | 14,219 | 23.3 | |
| Same state | 4,606 | 8.1 | Welsh | 247 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 5,603 | 9.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 330 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 9,467 | 15.5 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)
