
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Montgomery 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 | 11,771 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,706 | 100.0 | Native | 11,624 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 242 | 8.9 | Born in United States | 11,595 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 126 | 4.7 | State of residence | 8,233 | 69.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,382 | 51.1 | Different state | 3,362 | 28.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 678 | 25.1 | Born outside United States | 29 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 278 | 10.3 | Foreign born | 147 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 79 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 43 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,124 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 104 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 501 | 6.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 975 | 12.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,304 | 40.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 147 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,701 | 20.9 | Europe | 2 | 1.4 | |
| Associate degree | 596 | 7.3 | Asia | 36 | 24.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 779 | 9.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 268 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 107 | 72.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.8 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 1.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,055 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,409 | 100.0 | English only | 10,773 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 1,706 | 18.1 | Language other than English | 282 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,613 | 59.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 110 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 195 | 2.1 | Spanish | 199 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 847 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 94 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 691 | 7.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 69 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,048 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 581 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,771 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 124 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,172 | 103.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 46 | 37.1 | Arab | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 171 | 1.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 241 | 2.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,842 | 100.0 | Dutch | 350 | 3.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,191 | 13.5 | English | 1,341 | 11.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 388 | 3.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 38 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,313 | 28.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,592 | 100.0 | Greek | 61 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 204 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,040 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,671 | 14.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,191 | 19.7 | Italian | 97 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 62.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,849 | 80.3 | Norwegian | 356 | 3.0 | |
| Percent employed | 82.9 | (X) | Polish | 108 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,154 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 922 | 42.8 | Russian | 59 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 218 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 190 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,055 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,537 | 59.1 | Swedish | 1,567 | 13.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,452 | 40.3 | Swiss | 48 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 2,277 | 20.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,175 | 19.7 | United States or American | 948 | 8.1 | |
| Same state | 1,193 | 10.8 | Welsh | 131 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 982 | 8.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 66 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 848 | 7.2 | |
| 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)

