DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Washington 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 | 21,176 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,802 | 100.0 | Native | 21,065 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 508 | 8.8 | Born in United States | 20,991 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 275 | 4.7 | State of residence | 18,386 | 86.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,868 | 49.4 | Different state | 2,605 | 12.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,536 | 26.5 | Born outside United States | 74 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 615 | 10.6 | Foreign born | 111 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 29 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 48 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,626 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 63 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,611 | 11.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,711 | 19.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,289 | 38.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 111 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,081 | 15.3 | Europe | 34 | 30.6 | |
| Associate degree | 500 | 3.7 | Asia | 32 | 28.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 960 | 7.0 | Africa | 13 | 11.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 474 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 32 | 28.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.3 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 19,828 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,449 | 100.0 | English only | 19,357 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 4,683 | 28.5 | Language other than English | 471 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,127 | 49.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 108 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 657 | 4.0 | Spanish | 316 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 1,506 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 70 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,296 | 7.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 122 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,476 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 872 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 33 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,176 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 811 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,243 | 76.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 383 | 47.2 | Arab | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 24 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,487 | 100.0 | Dutch | 83 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,602 | 10.3 | English | 1,087 | 5.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 148 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 538 | 2.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,177 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 406 | 7.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,810 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 923 | 4.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,893 | 26.8 | Italian | 75 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 43.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,917 | 73.2 | Norwegian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 72.6 | (X) | Polish | 93 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,574 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,276 | 49.6 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 193 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 172 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 19,828 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 152 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,601 | 63.6 | Swedish | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,080 | 35.7 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 4,188 | 21.1 | Ukrainian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,892 | 14.6 | United States or American | 3,271 | 15.4 | |
| Same state | 2,079 | 10.5 | Welsh | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 813 | 4.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 147 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 9,411 | 44.4 | |
| 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
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