
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Camden 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 | 37,051 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,943 | 100.0 | Native | 36,521 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 393 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 36,297 | 98.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 384 | 5.5 | State of residence | 20,774 | 56.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,551 | 51.1 | Different state | 15,523 | 41.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,663 | 24.0 | Born outside United States | 224 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 952 | 13.7 | Foreign born | 530 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 181 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 272 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 27,303 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 258 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,327 | 4.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,346 | 12.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,190 | 37.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 530 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,293 | 23.0 | Europe | 292 | 55.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,305 | 4.8 | Asia | 93 | 17.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,292 | 12.1 | Africa | 13 | 2.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,550 | 5.7 | Oceania | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 69 | 13.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.9 | (X) | Northern America | 62 | 11.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 35,307 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 31,034 | 100.0 | English only | 34,213 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 4,665 | 15.0 | Language other than English | 1,094 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 20,407 | 65.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 267 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 479 | 1.5 | Spanish | 552 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,338 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 158 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,832 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 462 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 3,145 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 93 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,580 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 46 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 37,051 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 498 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 35,549 | 95.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 219 | 44.0 | Arab | 47 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 234 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 224 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 29,552 | 100.0 | Dutch | 927 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,683 | 19.2 | English | 4,885 | 13.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,421 | 3.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 132 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,805 | 23.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,679 | 100.0 | Greek | 77 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 605 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 72 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 21,387 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,904 | 13.2 | |
| With a disability | 4,141 | 19.4 | Italian | 1,004 | 2.7 | |
| Percent employed | 50.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 73 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 17,246 | 80.6 | Norwegian | 472 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 72.3 | (X) | Polish | 722 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,854 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 19 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,558 | 37.3 | Russian | 98 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 899 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 728 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 23 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 35,307 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 17,451 | 49.4 | Swedish | 608 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 17,501 | 49.6 | Swiss | 104 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 6,662 | 18.9 | Ukrainian | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 10,839 | 30.7 | United States or American | 4,980 | 13.4 | |
| Same state | 6,005 | 17.0 | Welsh | 271 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 4,834 | 13.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 355 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 3,793 | 10.2 | |
| 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)

