
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tate 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 | 25,370 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,177 | 100.0 | Native | 25,324 | 99.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 410 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 25,267 | 99.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 402 | 5.6 | State of residence | 14,968 | 59.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,116 | 43.4 | Different state | 10,299 | 40.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,541 | 21.5 | Born outside United States | 57 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,708 | 23.8 | Foreign born | 46 | 0.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 23 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 24 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,460 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,483 | 9.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,895 | 18.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,027 | 32.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 46 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,159 | 20.4 | Europe | 14 | 30.4 | |
| Associate degree | 992 | 6.4 | Asia | 17 | 37.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,347 | 8.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 557 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 15 | 32.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,546 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 19,690 | 100.0 | English only | 23,074 | 98.0 | |
| Never married | 4,593 | 23.3 | Language other than English | 472 | 2.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,277 | 57.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 180 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 529 | 2.7 | Spanish | 357 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,444 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 146 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,118 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 74 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 1,847 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 925 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 25,370 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 811 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 18,867 | 74.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 417 | 51.4 | Arab | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 19 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,443 | 100.0 | Dutch | 259 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,115 | 11.5 | English | 1,302 | 5.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 382 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,097 | 4.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,806 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 438 | 6.4 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,780 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,961 | 7.7 | |
| With a disability | 3,150 | 22.9 | Italian | 157 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 50.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,630 | 77.1 | Norwegian | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.6 | (X) | Polish | 87 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,745 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,470 | 53.6 | Russian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 604 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 281 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,546 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 155 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,320 | 60.8 | Swedish | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,152 | 38.9 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,962 | 16.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,190 | 22.0 | United States or American | 3,763 | 14.8 | |
| Same state | 2,857 | 12.1 | Welsh | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 2,333 | 9.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 74 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 8,655 | 34.1 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

