
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greene 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 | 14,761 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,569 | 100.0 | Native | 14,712 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 303 | 8.5 | Born in United States | 14,639 | 99.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 223 | 6.2 | State of residence | 12,929 | 87.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,717 | 48.1 | Different state | 1,710 | 11.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 890 | 24.9 | Born outside United States | 73 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 436 | 12.2 | Foreign born | 49 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 32 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,688 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 828 | 8.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,220 | 12.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,244 | 43.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 49 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,991 | 20.6 | Europe | 22 | 44.9 | |
| Associate degree | 426 | 4.4 | Asia | 7 | 14.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 634 | 6.5 | Africa | 2 | 4.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 345 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 18 | 36.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.9 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,834 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,695 | 100.0 | English only | 13,551 | 98.0 | |
| Never married | 2,245 | 19.2 | Language other than English | 283 | 2.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,012 | 60.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 92 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 152 | 1.3 | Spanish | 112 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,091 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 882 | 7.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 142 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,195 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 577 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,761 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 249 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,608 | 78.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 153 | 61.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 24 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,005 | 100.0 | Dutch | 347 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,714 | 15.6 | English | 1,836 | 12.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 218 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,242 | 22.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,378 | 100.0 | Greek | 30 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 280 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,690 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,501 | 10.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,641 | 21.3 | Italian | 136 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 47.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 6,049 | 78.7 | Norwegian | 33 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 78.2 | (X) | Polish | 91 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,428 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 14 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,009 | 41.6 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 153 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 230 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,834 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,710 | 63.0 | Swedish | 63 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,051 | 36.5 | Swiss | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,980 | 21.5 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,071 | 15.0 | United States or American | 2,497 | 16.9 | |
| Same state | 1,579 | 11.4 | Welsh | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 492 | 3.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 73 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,102 | 7.5 | |
| 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)

