
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Randolph 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 | 24,663 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,935 | 100.0 | Native | 24,334 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 373 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 24,195 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 313 | 5.3 | State of residence | 18,757 | 76.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,714 | 45.7 | Different state | 5,438 | 22.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,591 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 139 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 944 | 15.9 | Foreign born | 329 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 157 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 108 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,452 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 221 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,163 | 7.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,610 | 15.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,299 | 38.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 329 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,337 | 20.3 | Europe | 75 | 22.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,115 | 6.8 | Asia | 138 | 41.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,304 | 7.9 | Africa | 9 | 2.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 624 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 77 | 23.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.1 | (X) | Northern America | 30 | 9.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,052 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 19,798 | 100.0 | English only | 22,193 | 96.3 | |
| Never married | 4,263 | 21.5 | Language other than English | 859 | 3.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,898 | 55.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 309 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 386 | 1.9 | Spanish | 463 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,729 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 176 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 1,388 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 240 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 2,522 | 12.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 89 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,095 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 115 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 35 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 24,663 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 338 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,199 | 86.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 178 | 52.7 | Arab | 54 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 74 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 63 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,784 | 100.0 | Dutch | 511 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,840 | 15.1 | English | 2,593 | 10.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 570 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 76 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,066 | 20.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,264 | 100.0 | Greek | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 466 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,258 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,586 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 2,470 | 20.2 | Italian | 488 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 49.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,788 | 79.8 | Norwegian | 154 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 82.7 | (X) | Polish | 176 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,351 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 14 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,549 | 46.2 | Russian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 426 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 361 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,052 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 178 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,242 | 53.1 | Swedish | 222 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,618 | 46.1 | Swiss | 41 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 6,052 | 26.3 | Ukrainian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,566 | 19.8 | United States or American | 3,508 | 14.2 | |
| Same state | 3,415 | 14.8 | Welsh | 213 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 1,151 | 5.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 192 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 3,742 | 15.2 | |
| 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)

