DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Washington 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 | 62,977 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 19,083 | 100.0 | Native | 62,447 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,679 | 8.8 | Born in United States | 62,336 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,348 | 7.1 | State of residence | 53,920 | 85.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,371 | 49.1 | Different state | 8,416 | 13.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,541 | 23.8 | Born outside United States | 111 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,144 | 11.2 | Foreign born | 530 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 247 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 191 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 36,852 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 339 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,000 | 13.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,330 | 19.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,586 | 28.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 530 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,396 | 17.4 | Europe | 60 | 11.3 | |
| Associate degree | 1,498 | 4.1 | Asia | 165 | 31.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,076 | 11.1 | Africa | 59 | 11.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,966 | 5.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 204 | 38.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.5 | (X) | Northern America | 42 | 7.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 57,754 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 46,669 | 100.0 | English only | 56,062 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 16,210 | 34.7 | Language other than English | 1,692 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 20,001 | 42.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 597 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 1,961 | 4.2 | Spanish | 824 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 4,276 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 339 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 3,571 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 592 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 4,221 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 143 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 2,342 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 196 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 70 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 62,977 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,952 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 51,271 | 81.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,704 | 57.7 | Arab | 256 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 47 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 43,188 | 100.0 | Dutch | 325 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,242 | 9.8 | English | 2,058 | 3.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 485 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 85 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,350 | 2.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 17,408 | 100.0 | Greek | 102 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,662 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 32,842 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,354 | 3.7 | |
| With a disability | 8,002 | 24.4 | Italian | 1,086 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 45.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 24,840 | 75.6 | Norwegian | 19 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 67.8 | (X) | Polish | 82 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,843 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 17 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,516 | 51.4 | Russian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 871 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 413 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 9 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 57,754 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 723 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 34,595 | 59.9 | Swedish | 49 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 22,434 | 38.8 | Swiss | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 16,909 | 29.3 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,525 | 9.6 | United States or American | 3,860 | 6.1 | |
| Same state | 2,540 | 4.4 | Welsh | 48 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 2,985 | 5.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 725 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 36,991 | 58.7 | |
| 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)
