DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Suffolk 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 | 689,807 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 209,914 | 100.0 | Native | 513,776 | 74.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 8,285 | 3.9 | Born in United States | 490,771 | 71.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 9,246 | 4.4 | State of residence | 344,182 | 49.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 66,175 | 31.5 | Different state | 146,589 | 21.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 34,948 | 16.6 | Born outside United States | 23,005 | 3.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 91,260 | 43.5 | Foreign born | 176,031 | 25.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 86,408 | 12.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 63,450 | 9.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 446,504 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 112,581 | 16.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 42,324 | 9.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 55,286 | 12.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 114,919 | 25.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 176,026 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 66,458 | 14.9 | Europe | 31,668 | 18.0 | |
| Associate degree | 22,607 | 5.1 | Asia | 40,109 | 22.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 83,802 | 18.8 | Africa | 15,195 | 8.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 61,108 | 13.7 | Oceania | 382 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 85,625 | 48.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.1 | (X) | Northern America | 3,047 | 1.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 32.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 651,708 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 572,064 | 100.0 | English only | 431,448 | 66.2 | |
| Never married | 275,919 | 48.2 | Language other than English | 220,260 | 33.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 201,039 | 35.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 108,311 | 16.6 | |
| Separated | 17,381 | 3.0 | Spanish | 94,480 | 14.5 | |
| Widowed | 35,208 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46,229 | 7.1 | |
| Female | 28,585 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 77,980 | 12.0 | |
| Divorced | 42,517 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34,227 | 5.3 | |
| Female | 25,322 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 38,176 | 5.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24,239 | 3.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 689,807 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 14,158 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 689,072 | 99.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 4,809 | 34.0 | Arab | 7,119 | 1.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,259 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,053 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 550,923 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,703 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 38,555 | 7.0 | English | 31,336 | 4.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 13,674 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 9,343 | 1.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 26,960 | 3.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 142,381 | 100.0 | Greek | 5,999 | 0.9 | |
| With a disability | 15,224 | 10.7 | Hungarian | 1,299 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 428,095 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 110,163 | 16.0 | |
| With a disability | 97,397 | 22.8 | Italian | 75,279 | 10.9 | |
| Percent employed | 54.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3,177 | 0.5 | |
| No disability | 330,698 | 77.2 | Norwegian | 2,498 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 74.3 | (X) | Polish | 16,445 | 2.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 71,316 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5,850 | 0.8 | |
| With a disability | 32,893 | 46.1 | Russian | 11,225 | 1.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 6,115 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 8,582 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 374 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 651,708 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 22,413 | 3.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 321,407 | 49.3 | Swedish | 4,819 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 281,300 | 43.2 | Swiss | 946 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 145,561 | 22.3 | Ukrainian | 2,512 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 135,739 | 20.8 | United States or American | 23,085 | 3.3 | |
| Same state | 59,154 | 9.1 | Welsh | 1,689 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 76,585 | 11.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 38,523 | 5.6 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 49,001 | 7.5 | Other ancestries | 254,632 | 36.9 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
