DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Owsley 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 | 4,858 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,167 | 100.0 | Native | 4,853 | 99.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 77 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 4,847 | 99.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 6.1 | State of residence | 4,257 | 87.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 577 | 49.4 | Different state | 590 | 12.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 288 | 24.7 | Born outside United States | 6 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 154 | 13.2 | Foreign born | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,242 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,097 | 33.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 549 | 16.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 907 | 28.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 5 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 315 | 9.7 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 124 | 3.8 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 98 | 3.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 152 | 4.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 5 | 100.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 49.2 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,574 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,900 | 100.0 | English only | 4,527 | 99.0 | |
| Never married | 784 | 20.1 | Language other than English | 47 | 1.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,194 | 56.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 66 | 1.7 | Spanish | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Widowed | 335 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 272 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 32 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 521 | 13.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 238 | 6.1 | 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 | 4,858 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 160 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,721 | 56.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 140 | 87.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 8 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,678 | 100.0 | Dutch | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 332 | 9.0 | English | 362 | 7.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 105 | 2.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,112 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 119 | 10.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,694 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 220 | 4.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,138 | 42.2 | Italian | 39 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 20.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,556 | 57.8 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 63.6 | (X) | Polish | 33 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 672 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 419 | 62.4 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 57 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 24 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,574 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,244 | 70.9 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,330 | 29.1 | Swiss | 34 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 785 | 17.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 545 | 11.9 | United States or American | 1,527 | 31.4 | |
| Same state | 380 | 8.3 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 165 | 3.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 0 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 296 | 6.1 | |
| 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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