
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 | 508,932 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 141,671 | 100.0 | Native | 473,582 | 93.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 10,993 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 456,517 | 89.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 7,632 | 5.4 | State of residence | 264,323 | 51.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 64,838 | 45.8 | Different state | 192,194 | 37.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 32,509 | 22.9 | Born outside United States | 17,065 | 3.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 25,699 | 18.1 | Foreign born | 35,350 | 6.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 13,957 | 2.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 18,694 | 3.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 331,765 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 16,656 | 3.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 19,501 | 5.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 45,956 | 13.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 106,572 | 32.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 35,350 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 61,683 | 18.6 | Europe | 8,359 | 23.6 | |
| Associate degree | 18,351 | 5.5 | Asia | 15,487 | 43.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 51,782 | 15.6 | Africa | 1,482 | 4.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 27,920 | 8.4 | Oceania | 80 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 9,239 | 26.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.3 | (X) | Northern America | 703 | 2.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 24.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 474,661 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 395,651 | 100.0 | English only | 400,711 | 84.4 | |
| Never married | 119,413 | 30.2 | Language other than English | 73,950 | 15.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 202,636 | 51.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30,096 | 6.3 | |
| Separated | 11,182 | 2.8 | Spanish | 40,475 | 8.5 | |
| Widowed | 29,505 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17,199 | 3.6 | |
| Female | 23,855 | 6.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 18,920 | 4.0 | |
| Divorced | 32,915 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,910 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 20,011 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 12,189 | 2.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,350 | 1.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 508,932 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 12,606 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 588,755 | 115.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 5,041 | 40.0 | Arab | 1,333 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,547 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 829 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 372,832 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4,241 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 45,113 | 12.1 | English | 41,466 | 8.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 8,554 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,575 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 80,086 | 15.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 119,311 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,919 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 9,653 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 2,936 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 286,481 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 104,635 | 20.6 | |
| With a disability | 53,943 | 18.8 | Italian | 92,761 | 18.2 | |
| Percent employed | 56.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2,657 | 0.5 | |
| No disability | 232,538 | 81.2 | Norwegian | 2,344 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 78.3 | (X) | Polish | 30,615 | 6.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 61,147 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 551 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 24,547 | 40.1 | Russian | 10,446 | 2.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,497 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,940 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,281 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 474,661 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3,750 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 299,172 | 63.0 | Swedish | 3,057 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 167,129 | 35.2 | Swiss | 945 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 105,271 | 22.2 | Ukrainian | 3,329 | 0.7 | |
| Different county | 61,858 | 13.0 | United States or American | 14,228 | 2.8 | |
| Same state | 29,834 | 6.3 | Welsh | 3,718 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 32,024 | 6.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2,127 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 8,360 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 155,388 | 30.5 | |
| 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)

