
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Putnam 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 | 5,223 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,139 | 100.0 | Native | 5,196 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 41 | 3.6 | Born in United States | 5,191 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 5.3 | State of residence | 3,406 | 65.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 597 | 52.4 | Different state | 1,785 | 34.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 267 | 23.4 | Born outside United States | 5 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 174 | 15.3 | Foreign born | 27 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 27 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,649 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 315 | 8.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 414 | 11.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,635 | 44.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 27 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 629 | 17.2 | Europe | 4 | 14.8 | |
| Associate degree | 249 | 6.8 | Asia | 6 | 22.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 286 | 7.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 121 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 12 | 44.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.0 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 18.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,883 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,189 | 100.0 | English only | 4,745 | 97.2 | |
| Never married | 635 | 15.2 | Language other than English | 138 | 2.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,698 | 64.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 35 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 47 | 1.1 | Spanish | 105 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 414 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 362 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 20 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 395 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 188 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 5,223 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 59 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,352 | 83.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 34 | 57.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 4 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 10 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,971 | 100.0 | Dutch | 192 | 3.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 580 | 14.6 | English | 746 | 14.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 120 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 25 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 888 | 17.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,069 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 99 | 9.3 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,730 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 573 | 11.0 | |
| With a disability | 572 | 21.0 | Italian | 103 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 41.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,158 | 79.0 | Norwegian | 47 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 76.8 | (X) | Polish | 38 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,033 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 514 | 49.8 | Russian | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 160 | 3.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 62 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,883 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,151 | 64.5 | Swedish | 54 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,687 | 34.5 | Swiss | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 901 | 18.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 786 | 16.1 | United States or American | 810 | 15.5 | |
| Same state | 396 | 8.1 | Welsh | 21 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 390 | 8.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 45 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 472 | 9.0 | |
| 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)

