DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Columbus 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 | 54,749 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 13,690 | 100.0 | Native | 53,959 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 580 | 4.2 | Born in United States | 53,812 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 789 | 5.8 | State of residence | 42,014 | 76.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,609 | 48.3 | Different state | 11,798 | 21.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,428 | 25.0 | Born outside United States | 147 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,284 | 16.7 | Foreign born | 790 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 468 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 237 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 35,921 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 553 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,044 | 11.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,230 | 20.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,093 | 33.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 790 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,516 | 18.1 | Europe | 88 | 11.1 | |
| Associate degree | 2,414 | 6.7 | Asia | 120 | 15.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,432 | 6.8 | Africa | 16 | 2.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,192 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 549 | 69.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.6 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 2.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 51,125 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 43,205 | 100.0 | English only | 49,331 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 9,971 | 23.1 | Language other than English | 1,794 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,365 | 54.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 843 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 1,768 | 4.1 | Spanish | 1,369 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 4,320 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 702 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 3,606 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 309 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 3,781 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 70 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 2,032 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 104 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 64 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 54,749 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,623 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 40,723 | 74.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,055 | 65.0 | Arab | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 21 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 14 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 40,584 | 100.0 | Dutch | 189 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,672 | 11.5 | English | 3,564 | 6.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 511 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 49 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,280 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 12,482 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,393 | 11.2 | Hungarian | 19 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 30,149 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,623 | 3.0 | |
| With a disability | 9,921 | 32.9 | Italian | 258 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 49.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 20,228 | 67.1 | Norwegian | 58 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 69.0 | (X) | Polish | 92 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,602 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,278 | 56.3 | Russian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,145 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 593 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 51,125 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 467 | 0.9 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 35,566 | 69.6 | Swedish | 25 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 15,285 | 29.9 | Swiss | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 9,885 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,400 | 10.6 | United States or American | 11,048 | 20.2 | |
| Same state | 2,807 | 5.5 | Welsh | 58 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 2,593 | 5.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 274 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 19,586 | 35.8 | |
| 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)
