DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Whitfield 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 | 83,525 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 19,439 | 100.0 | Native | 69,630 | 83.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,331 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 69,070 | 82.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,437 | 7.4 | State of residence | 47,042 | 56.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,262 | 52.8 | Different state | 22,028 | 26.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,402 | 22.6 | Born outside United States | 560 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,007 | 10.3 | Foreign born | 13,895 | 16.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 9,384 | 11.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2,103 | 2.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 52,570 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 11,792 | 14.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 9,569 | 18.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,887 | 18.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 15,259 | 29.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 13,895 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,063 | 17.2 | Europe | 253 | 1.8 | |
| Associate degree | 2,044 | 3.9 | Asia | 839 | 6.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,190 | 8.0 | Africa | 84 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,558 | 4.9 | Oceania | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 12,644 | 91.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.0 | (X) | Northern America | 55 | 0.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 76,966 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 64,317 | 100.0 | English only | 59,886 | 77.8 | |
| Never married | 13,322 | 20.7 | Language other than English | 17,080 | 22.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 38,940 | 60.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11,477 | 14.9 | |
| Separated | 1,258 | 2.0 | Spanish | 15,746 | 20.5 | |
| Widowed | 4,101 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10,980 | 14.3 | |
| Female | 3,437 | 5.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 824 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 6,696 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 243 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 3,759 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 384 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 237 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 83,525 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,264 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 66,322 | 79.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 858 | 37.9 | Arab | 143 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 137 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 66 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 60,835 | 100.0 | Dutch | 866 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,381 | 10.5 | English | 5,775 | 6.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 935 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 165 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,161 | 5.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 19,430 | 100.0 | Greek | 108 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,724 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 83 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 48,660 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,364 | 7.6 | |
| With a disability | 11,303 | 23.2 | Italian | 699 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 57.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 37,357 | 76.8 | Norwegian | 186 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 77.5 | (X) | Polish | 214 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,324 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,778 | 45.4 | Russian | 81 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,269 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,110 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 29 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 76,966 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 142 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 40,309 | 52.4 | Swedish | 203 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 31,953 | 41.5 | Swiss | 38 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 19,469 | 25.3 | Ukrainian | 29 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 12,484 | 16.2 | United States or American | 17,531 | 21.0 | |
| Same state | 5,148 | 6.7 | Welsh | 204 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 7,336 | 9.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 89 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4,704 | 6.1 | Other ancestries | 25,685 | 30.8 | |
| 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)
