
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Putnam 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 | 36,019 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,600 | 100.0 | Native | 35,630 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 486 | 5.1 | Born in United States | 35,455 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 356 | 3.7 | State of residence | 27,106 | 75.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,956 | 41.2 | Different state | 8,349 | 23.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,128 | 22.2 | Born outside United States | 175 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,674 | 27.9 | Foreign born | 389 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 200 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 127 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,740 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 262 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 886 | 3.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,384 | 14.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,956 | 48.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 389 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,379 | 14.9 | Europe | 104 | 26.7 | |
| Associate degree | 1,154 | 5.1 | Asia | 137 | 35.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,665 | 7.3 | Africa | 15 | 3.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,316 | 5.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 102 | 26.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.2 | (X) | Northern America | 31 | 8.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 33,858 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 29,002 | 100.0 | English only | 32,887 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 6,029 | 20.8 | Language other than English | 971 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 17,273 | 59.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 293 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 612 | 2.1 | Spanish | 536 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 1,882 | 6.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 141 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,495 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 261 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 3,206 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 64 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,265 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 127 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 79 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 36,019 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 396 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 28,490 | 79.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 120 | 30.3 | Arab | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 65 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 27,488 | 100.0 | Dutch | 690 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,472 | 12.6 | English | 3,655 | 10.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 696 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 57 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,628 | 18.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,413 | 100.0 | Greek | 40 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 587 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 35 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,827 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,975 | 11.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,517 | 24.0 | Italian | 743 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 70.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 34 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 14,310 | 76.0 | Norwegian | 65 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 76.7 | (X) | Polish | 487 | 1.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,102 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,809 | 44.1 | Russian | 35 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 342 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 576 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 42 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 33,858 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,192 | 53.7 | Swedish | 196 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 15,507 | 45.8 | Swiss | 101 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 6,726 | 19.9 | Ukrainian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 8,781 | 25.9 | United States or American | 5,546 | 15.4 | |
| Same state | 6,575 | 19.4 | Welsh | 204 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 2,206 | 6.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 159 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 4,181 | 11.6 | |
| 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)

