DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Carter 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 | 5,941 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,441 | 100.0 | Native | 5,926 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 87 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 5,909 | 99.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 101 | 7.0 | State of residence | 4,372 | 73.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 710 | 49.3 | Different state | 1,537 | 25.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 357 | 24.8 | Born outside United States | 17 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 186 | 12.9 | Foreign born | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 9 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,959 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 591 | 14.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 732 | 18.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,396 | 35.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 15 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 669 | 16.9 | Europe | 10 | 66.7 | |
| Associate degree | 143 | 3.6 | Asia | 2 | 13.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 302 | 7.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 126 | 3.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 3 | 20.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.6 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,587 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,709 | 100.0 | English only | 5,443 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 842 | 17.9 | Language other than English | 144 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,881 | 61.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 73 | 1.6 | Spanish | 75 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 416 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 345 | 7.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 64 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 497 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 249 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 5,941 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 85 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,584 | 77.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 17 | 20.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 12 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 19 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,435 | 100.0 | Dutch | 136 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 738 | 16.6 | English | 552 | 9.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 135 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 702 | 11.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,348 | 100.0 | Greek | 20 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 133 | 9.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,279 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 864 | 14.5 | |
| With a disability | 862 | 26.3 | Italian | 36 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 31.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 9 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 2,417 | 73.7 | Norwegian | 24 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 72.3 | (X) | Polish | 43 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 905 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 15 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 541 | 59.8 | Russian | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 96 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 80 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 15 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,587 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,308 | 59.2 | Swedish | 17 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,259 | 40.4 | Swiss | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,046 | 18.7 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,213 | 21.7 | United States or American | 957 | 16.1 | |
| Same state | 738 | 13.2 | Welsh | 49 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 475 | 8.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 20 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 784 | 13.2 | |
| 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
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