
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 | 10,769 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,647 | 100.0 | Native | 10,681 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 137 | 5.2 | Born in United States | 10,652 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 174 | 6.6 | State of residence | 9,177 | 85.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,380 | 52.1 | Different state | 1,475 | 13.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 621 | 23.5 | Born outside United States | 29 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 335 | 12.7 | Foreign born | 88 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 39 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 51 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,121 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 37 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,077 | 15.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,301 | 18.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,472 | 34.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 88 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,232 | 17.3 | Europe | 4 | 4.5 | |
| Associate degree | 262 | 3.7 | Asia | 45 | 51.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 509 | 7.1 | Africa | 10 | 11.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 268 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 29 | 33.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.6 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,195 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,613 | 100.0 | English only | 9,962 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 2,095 | 24.3 | Language other than English | 233 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,852 | 56.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 255 | 3.0 | Spanish | 124 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 754 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 637 | 7.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 57 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 657 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 310 | 3.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 40 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,769 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 248 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,721 | 71.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 104 | 41.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,148 | 100.0 | Dutch | 29 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 945 | 11.6 | English | 475 | 4.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 121 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 20 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 276 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,430 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 164 | 6.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,940 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 758 | 7.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,733 | 29.2 | Italian | 39 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 59.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,207 | 70.8 | Norwegian | 73 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 73.0 | (X) | Polish | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,518 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 836 | 55.1 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 136 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 87 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,195 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 43 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,280 | 71.4 | Swedish | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,859 | 28.0 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,129 | 11.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,730 | 17.0 | United States or American | 1,347 | 12.5 | |
| Same state | 1,346 | 13.2 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 384 | 3.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 56 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 4,278 | 39.7 | |
| 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)

