DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Anne Arundel 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 | 489,656 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 131,201 | 100.0 | Native | 466,445 | 95.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 8,523 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 457,345 | 93.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 6,962 | 5.3 | State of residence | 258,379 | 52.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 57,500 | 43.8 | Different state | 198,966 | 40.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 28,860 | 22.0 | Born outside United States | 9,100 | 1.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 29,356 | 22.4 | Foreign born | 23,211 | 4.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 7,873 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 12,441 | 2.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 326,999 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 10,770 | 2.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 12,038 | 3.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 32,285 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 91,307 | 27.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 23,211 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 71,485 | 21.9 | Europe | 6,371 | 27.4 | |
| Associate degree | 19,806 | 6.1 | Asia | 8,995 | 38.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 62,371 | 19.1 | Africa | 1,076 | 4.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 37,707 | 11.5 | Oceania | 245 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 5,559 | 23.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.4 | (X) | Northern America | 965 | 4.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 30.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 456,969 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 386,366 | 100.0 | English only | 423,447 | 92.7 | |
| Never married | 95,041 | 24.6 | Language other than English | 33,522 | 7.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 223,296 | 57.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11,416 | 2.5 | |
| Separated | 10,552 | 2.7 | Spanish | 12,717 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 22,318 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,857 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 17,561 | 4.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 11,860 | 2.6 | |
| Divorced | 35,159 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,619 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 20,340 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7,517 | 1.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,666 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 489,656 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 10,295 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 538,784 | 110.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 4,077 | 39.6 | Arab | 1,332 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,336 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,707 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 355,006 | 100.0 | Dutch | 7,355 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 61,473 | 17.3 | English | 61,648 | 12.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 13,246 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,604 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 103,193 | 21.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 104,813 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,879 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 8,028 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 3,302 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 284,800 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 83,488 | 17.1 | |
| With a disability | 41,771 | 14.7 | Italian | 34,463 | 7.0 | |
| Percent employed | 66.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2,303 | 0.5 | |
| No disability | 243,029 | 85.3 | Norwegian | 4,335 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 82.7 | (X) | Polish | 23,611 | 4.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 47,085 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,125 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 17,914 | 38.0 | Russian | 4,374 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 9,241 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 12,020 | 2.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,439 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 456,969 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,843 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 254,609 | 55.7 | Swedish | 4,106 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 191,976 | 42.0 | Swiss | 1,402 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 94,772 | 20.7 | Ukrainian | 1,733 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 97,204 | 21.3 | United States or American | 31,801 | 6.5 | |
| Same state | 45,982 | 10.1 | Welsh | 4,975 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 51,222 | 11.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,610 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 10,384 | 2.3 | Other ancestries | 112,313 | 22.9 | |
| 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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