DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ware 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 | 35,483 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,641 | 100.0 | Native | 34,853 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 598 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 34,673 | 97.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 436 | 5.0 | State of residence | 28,054 | 79.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,402 | 50.9 | Different state | 6,619 | 18.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,144 | 24.8 | Born outside United States | 180 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,061 | 12.3 | Foreign born | 630 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 451 | 1.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 159 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 23,380 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 471 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,394 | 10.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,545 | 19.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,060 | 38.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 630 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,860 | 16.5 | Europe | 65 | 10.3 | |
| Associate degree | 862 | 3.7 | Asia | 88 | 14.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,582 | 6.8 | Africa | 26 | 4.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,077 | 4.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 419 | 66.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.3 | (X) | Northern America | 32 | 5.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 33,238 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 28,162 | 100.0 | English only | 31,866 | 95.9 | |
| Never married | 5,440 | 19.3 | Language other than English | 1,372 | 4.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 16,154 | 57.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 688 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 817 | 2.9 | Spanish | 1,025 | 3.1 | |
| Widowed | 2,590 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 534 | 1.6 | |
| Female | 2,182 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 234 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 3,161 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 98 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,636 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 57 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 35,483 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 908 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 26,802 | 75.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 492 | 54.2 | Arab | 52 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 26,686 | 100.0 | Dutch | 291 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,074 | 15.3 | English | 2,867 | 8.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 310 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 45 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,196 | 3.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,778 | 100.0 | Greek | 22 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 835 | 10.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,352 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,307 | 6.5 | |
| With a disability | 5,557 | 30.3 | Italian | 307 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 50.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,795 | 69.7 | Norwegian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.1 | (X) | Polish | 131 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,965 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 63 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,600 | 52.4 | Russian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 538 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 439 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 33,238 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 322 | 0.9 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 17,609 | 53.0 | Swedish | 71 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 15,261 | 45.9 | Swiss | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 8,033 | 24.2 | Ukrainian | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 7,228 | 21.7 | United States or American | 7,175 | 20.2 | |
| Same state | 4,903 | 14.8 | Welsh | 102 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 2,325 | 7.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 368 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 10,452 | 29.5 | |
| 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)
