DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Queens 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 | 2,229,379 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 586,090 | 100.0 | Native | 1,201,040 | 53.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 32,116 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 1,149,982 | 51.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 30,060 | 5.1 | State of residence | 1,014,682 | 45.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 233,679 | 39.9 | Different state | 135,300 | 6.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 126,121 | 21.5 | Born outside United States | 51,058 | 2.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 164,114 | 28.0 | Foreign born | 1,028,339 | 46.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 429,294 | 19.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 466,608 | 20.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,509,502 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 561,731 | 25.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 170,222 | 11.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 216,959 | 14.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 418,381 | 27.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,028,312 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 249,688 | 16.5 | Europe | 169,014 | 16.4 | |
| Associate degree | 87,380 | 5.8 | Asia | 331,323 | 32.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 228,419 | 15.1 | Africa | 20,148 | 2.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 138,453 | 9.2 | Oceania | 599 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 504,012 | 49.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.4 | (X) | Northern America | 3,216 | 0.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 24.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,088,870 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,801,628 | 100.0 | English only | 968,415 | 46.4 | |
| Never married | 585,586 | 32.5 | Language other than English | 1,120,455 | 53.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 898,006 | 49.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 580,368 | 27.8 | |
| Separated | 60,681 | 3.4 | Spanish | 485,046 | 23.2 | |
| Widowed | 130,737 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 260,340 | 12.5 | |
| Female | 108,629 | 6.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 361,658 | 17.3 | |
| Divorced | 126,618 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 160,525 | 7.7 | |
| Female | 79,809 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 237,391 | 11.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 146,781 | 7.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,229,379 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 69,317 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,163,593 | 97.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 20,986 | 30.3 | Arab | 16,165 | 0.7 | |
| Czech¹ | 6,628 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,152 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,721,611 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,279 | 0.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 101,398 | 5.9 | English | 20,115 | 0.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 10,822 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,319 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 79,013 | 3.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 450,507 | 100.0 | Greek | 45,257 | 2.0 | |
| With a disability | 38,425 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 11,750 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,350,442 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 122,152 | 5.5 | |
| With a disability | 336,580 | 24.9 | Italian | 187,540 | 8.4 | |
| Percent employed | 58.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 4,164 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 1,013,862 | 75.1 | Norwegian | 2,199 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 68.2 | (X) | Polish | 60,192 | 2.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 272,918 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4,707 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 115,587 | 42.4 | Russian | 51,192 | 2.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,161 | 0.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 4,908 | 0.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,956 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,088,870 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 21,950 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,291,231 | 61.8 | Swedish | 3,079 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 627,855 | 30.1 | Swiss | 1,484 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 431,997 | 20.7 | Ukrainian | 10,306 | 0.5 | |
| Different county | 195,858 | 9.4 | United States or American | 61,794 | 2.8 | |
| Same state | 149,966 | 7.2 | Welsh | 1,140 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 45,892 | 2.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 136,628 | 6.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 169,784 | 8.1 | Other ancestries | 1,287,541 | 57.8 | |
| 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
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