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 | 20,670 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,958 | 100.0 | Native | 20,360 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 291 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 20,310 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 300 | 6.1 | State of residence | 16,625 | 80.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,480 | 50.0 | Different state | 3,685 | 17.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,303 | 26.3 | Born outside United States | 50 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 584 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 310 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 137 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 82 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,876 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 228 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,248 | 9.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,181 | 8.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,429 | 39.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 310 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,698 | 19.4 | Europe | 107 | 34.5 | |
| Associate degree | 1,048 | 7.6 | Asia | 18 | 5.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,602 | 11.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 670 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 185 | 59.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.5 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 19,283 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,226 | 100.0 | English only | 18,017 | 93.4 | |
| Never married | 3,200 | 19.7 | Language other than English | 1,266 | 6.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,187 | 62.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 411 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 134 | 0.8 | Spanish | 531 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,307 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 193 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 1,080 | 6.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 713 | 3.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,398 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 209 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 757 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 20,670 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 158 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,890 | 96.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 77 | 48.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 695 | 3.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 85 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,274 | 100.0 | Dutch | 650 | 3.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,889 | 12.4 | English | 1,768 | 8.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 621 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 26 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,495 | 36.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,665 | 100.0 | Greek | 21 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 347 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,892 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,488 | 12.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,799 | 16.5 | Italian | 170 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 72.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 9,093 | 83.5 | Norwegian | 340 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 88.3 | (X) | Polish | 220 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,270 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,230 | 37.6 | Russian | 66 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 365 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 374 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 19,283 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 11,829 | 61.3 | Swedish | 416 | 2.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,354 | 38.1 | Swiss | 359 | 1.7 | |
| Same county | 3,625 | 18.8 | Ukrainian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,729 | 19.3 | United States or American | 1,769 | 8.6 | |
| Same state | 2,624 | 13.6 | Welsh | 243 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 1,105 | 5.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 100 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,677 | 8.1 | |
| 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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