DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Essex 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 | 793,633 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 221,424 | 100.0 | Native | 625,468 | 78.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 18,361 | 8.3 | Born in United States | 596,546 | 75.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 12,044 | 5.4 | State of residence | 424,219 | 53.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 95,942 | 43.3 | Different state | 172,327 | 21.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 47,393 | 21.4 | Born outside United States | 28,922 | 3.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 47,684 | 21.5 | Foreign born | 168,165 | 21.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 72,943 | 9.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 73,983 | 9.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 513,570 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 94,182 | 11.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 47,859 | 9.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 77,545 | 15.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 139,578 | 27.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 168,165 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 86,465 | 16.8 | Europe | 35,601 | 21.2 | |
| Associate degree | 20,956 | 4.1 | Asia | 23,743 | 14.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 84,953 | 16.5 | Africa | 11,543 | 6.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 56,214 | 10.9 | Oceania | 187 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 95,738 | 56.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.6 | (X) | Northern America | 1,353 | 0.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 27.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 736,536 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 618,968 | 100.0 | English only | 517,923 | 70.3 | |
| Never married | 222,587 | 36.0 | Language other than English | 218,613 | 29.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 278,694 | 45.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 98,262 | 13.3 | |
| Separated | 24,237 | 3.9 | Spanish | 108,723 | 14.8 | |
| Widowed | 47,150 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 52,993 | 7.2 | |
| Female | 38,364 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 79,843 | 10.8 | |
| Divorced | 46,300 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 36,223 | 4.9 | |
| Female | 28,294 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 17,702 | 2.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,620 | 0.9 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 793,633 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 23,877 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 774,329 | 97.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 9,273 | 38.8 | Arab | 3,495 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,111 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 885 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 587,516 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,478 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 47,596 | 8.1 | English | 19,505 | 2.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 5,407 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,138 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 37,911 | 4.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 179,209 | 100.0 | Greek | 3,228 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 15,994 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 4,427 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 454,864 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 54,738 | 6.9 | |
| With a disability | 104,499 | 23.0 | Italian | 92,389 | 11.6 | |
| Percent employed | 54.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,987 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 350,365 | 77.0 | Norwegian | 2,122 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 70.9 | (X) | Polish | 24,590 | 3.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 89,691 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 18,604 | 2.3 | |
| With a disability | 37,751 | 42.1 | Russian | 16,592 | 2.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 3,585 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,381 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,364 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 736,536 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 17,639 | 2.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 426,607 | 57.9 | Swedish | 2,499 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 273,658 | 37.2 | Swiss | 1,128 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 186,082 | 25.3 | Ukrainian | 3,741 | 0.5 | |
| Different county | 87,576 | 11.9 | United States or American | 20,391 | 2.6 | |
| Same state | 49,055 | 6.7 | Welsh | 1,499 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 38,521 | 5.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 39,564 | 5.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 36,271 | 4.9 | Other ancestries | 384,931 | 48.5 | |
| 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)
