DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Suffolk 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 | 1,419,369 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 387,491 | 100.0 | Native | 1,260,844 | 88.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 31,658 | 8.2 | Born in United States | 1,238,725 | 87.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 21,608 | 5.6 | State of residence | 1,127,869 | 79.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 173,409 | 44.8 | Different state | 110,856 | 7.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 78,724 | 20.3 | Born outside United States | 22,119 | 1.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 82,092 | 21.2 | Foreign born | 158,525 | 11.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 54,970 | 3.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 77,416 | 5.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 942,401 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 81,109 | 5.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 41,038 | 4.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 89,136 | 9.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 294,953 | 31.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 158,525 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 183,330 | 19.5 | Europe | 46,047 | 29.0 | |
| Associate degree | 75,080 | 8.0 | Asia | 31,211 | 19.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 147,323 | 15.6 | Africa | 2,698 | 1.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 111,541 | 11.8 | Oceania | 304 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 76,040 | 48.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.2 | (X) | Northern America | 2,225 | 1.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 27.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,319,377 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,105,658 | 100.0 | English only | 1,094,244 | 82.9 | |
| Never married | 285,732 | 25.8 | Language other than English | 225,133 | 17.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 644,918 | 58.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 88,440 | 6.7 | |
| Separated | 23,547 | 2.1 | Spanish | 115,677 | 8.8 | |
| Widowed | 75,047 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 53,958 | 4.1 | |
| Female | 60,517 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 83,773 | 6.3 | |
| Divorced | 76,414 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24,414 | 1.9 | |
| Female | 46,333 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 19,981 | 1.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8,679 | 0.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 1,419,369 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 34,363 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,756,313 | 123.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 7,777 | 22.6 | Arab | 4,789 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 10,750 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4,348 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,049,306 | 100.0 | Dutch | 13,044 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 119,918 | 11.4 | English | 82,612 | 5.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 26,055 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 7,293 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 244,179 | 17.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 316,675 | 100.0 | Greek | 18,419 | 1.3 | |
| With a disability | 21,279 | 6.7 | Hungarian | 11,878 | 0.8 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 831,293 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 325,478 | 22.9 | |
| With a disability | 135,001 | 16.2 | Italian | 408,572 | 28.8 | |
| Percent employed | 59.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5,793 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 696,292 | 83.8 | Norwegian | 14,976 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 78.0 | (X) | Polish | 85,175 | 6.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 159,498 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6,366 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 57,805 | 36.2 | Russian | 35,002 | 2.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 12,904 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 15,749 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,799 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,319,377 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5,092 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 854,055 | 64.7 | Swedish | 15,349 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 438,846 | 33.3 | Swiss | 3,064 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 295,589 | 22.4 | Ukrainian | 8,181 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 143,257 | 10.9 | United States or American | 42,448 | 3.0 | |
| Same state | 107,972 | 8.2 | Welsh | 3,604 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 35,285 | 2.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 20,621 | 1.5 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 26,476 | 2.0 | Other ancestries | 322,773 | 22.7 | |
| 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)
