DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: New York 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 | 1,537,195 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 358,066 | 100.0 | Native | 1,084,755 | 70.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 21,035 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 1,014,833 | 66.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 14,962 | 4.2 | State of residence | 673,538 | 43.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 117,292 | 32.8 | Different state | 341,295 | 22.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 63,694 | 17.8 | Born outside United States | 69,922 | 4.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 141,083 | 39.4 | Foreign born | 452,440 | 29.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 190,381 | 12.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 179,785 | 11.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,125,987 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 272,655 | 17.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 117,448 | 10.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 122,906 | 10.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 151,995 | 13.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 452,440 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 138,579 | 12.3 | Europe | 83,327 | 18.4 | |
| Associate degree | 38,866 | 3.5 | Asia | 122,417 | 27.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 292,665 | 26.0 | Africa | 15,838 | 3.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 263,528 | 23.4 | Oceania | 3,305 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 218,795 | 48.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.7 | (X) | Northern America | 8,758 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 49.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,462,015 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,319,421 | 100.0 | English only | 849,603 | 58.1 | |
| Never married | 600,933 | 45.5 | Language other than English | 612,412 | 41.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 467,939 | 35.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 292,241 | 20.0 | |
| Separated | 51,534 | 3.9 | Spanish | 364,141 | 24.9 | |
| Widowed | 80,479 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 189,720 | 13.0 | |
| Female | 66,717 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 115,836 | 7.9 | |
| Divorced | 118,536 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30,309 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 73,967 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 108,035 | 7.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 66,139 | 4.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 1,537,195 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 29,812 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,539,499 | 100.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 12,451 | 41.8 | Arab | 10,619 | 0.7 | |
| Czech¹ | 5,865 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3,550 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,281,455 | 100.0 | Dutch | 9,549 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 69,500 | 5.4 | English | 66,681 | 4.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 25,890 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4,226 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 91,492 | 6.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 235,994 | 100.0 | Greek | 12,162 | 0.8 | |
| With a disability | 24,801 | 10.5 | Hungarian | 15,092 | 1.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,033,078 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 105,318 | 6.9 | |
| With a disability | 201,210 | 19.5 | Italian | 84,956 | 5.5 | |
| Percent employed | 50.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5,242 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 831,868 | 80.5 | Norwegian | 6,901 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 73.9 | (X) | Polish | 53,662 | 3.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 181,118 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3,088 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 77,197 | 42.6 | Russian | 75,885 | 4.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 9,814 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 16,898 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,828 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,462,015 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 18,988 | 1.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 831,282 | 56.9 | Swedish | 10,328 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 526,679 | 36.0 | Swiss | 4,646 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 248,814 | 17.0 | Ukrainian | 9,343 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 277,865 | 19.0 | United States or American | 43,302 | 2.8 | |
| Same state | 122,686 | 8.4 | Welsh | 5,351 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 155,179 | 10.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 27,187 | 1.8 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 104,054 | 7.1 | Other ancestries | 811,636 | 52.8 | |
| 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)
