
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Carroll 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 | 10,155 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,243 | 100.0 | Native | 9,967 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 194 | 8.6 | Born in United States | 9,930 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 3.6 | State of residence | 6,949 | 68.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,133 | 50.5 | Different state | 2,981 | 29.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 554 | 24.7 | Born outside United States | 37 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 281 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 188 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 83 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 57 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,690 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 131 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,005 | 15.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,128 | 16.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,513 | 37.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 188 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,222 | 18.3 | Europe | 46 | 24.5 | |
| Associate degree | 269 | 4.0 | Asia | 6 | 3.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 394 | 5.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 159 | 2.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 107 | 56.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.1 | (X) | Northern America | 29 | 15.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,455 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,074 | 100.0 | English only | 9,207 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 1,657 | 20.5 | Language other than English | 248 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,590 | 56.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 57 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 275 | 3.4 | Spanish | 150 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 593 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 48 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 444 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 83 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 959 | 11.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 505 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,155 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 268 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,591 | 74.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 193 | 72.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 26 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,613 | 100.0 | Dutch | 111 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,234 | 16.2 | English | 858 | 8.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 187 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 36 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,019 | 10.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,240 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 161 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 28 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,783 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 740 | 7.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,371 | 23.7 | Italian | 240 | 2.4 | |
| Percent employed | 44.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,412 | 76.3 | Norwegian | 40 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 75.5 | (X) | Polish | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,241 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 646 | 52.1 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 152 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 174 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,455 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,852 | 51.3 | Swedish | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,531 | 47.9 | Swiss | 26 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,621 | 27.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,910 | 20.2 | United States or American | 2,804 | 27.6 | |
| Same state | 1,116 | 11.8 | Welsh | 32 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 794 | 8.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 72 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 1,035 | 10.2 | |
| 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
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