
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hyde 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 | 5,826 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,255 | 100.0 | Native | 5,694 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 59 | 4.7 | Born in United States | 5,688 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 38 | 3.0 | State of residence | 4,592 | 78.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 652 | 52.0 | Different state | 1,096 | 18.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 434 | 34.6 | Born outside United States | 6 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 72 | 5.7 | Foreign born | 132 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 33 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 83 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,190 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 49 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 546 | 13.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 780 | 18.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,521 | 36.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 132 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 640 | 15.3 | Europe | 10 | 7.6 | |
| Associate degree | 260 | 6.2 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 315 | 7.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 128 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 115 | 87.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.4 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 5.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,562 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,863 | 100.0 | English only | 5,307 | 95.4 | |
| Never married | 975 | 20.0 | Language other than English | 255 | 4.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,629 | 54.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 285 | 5.9 | Spanish | 177 | 3.2 | |
| Widowed | 671 | 13.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 515 | 10.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 59 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 303 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 97 | 2.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 5,826 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 130 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,913 | 67.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 81 | 62.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,636 | 100.0 | Dutch | 25 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 554 | 11.9 | English | 530 | 9.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 59 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 220 | 3.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,086 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 142 | 13.1 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,919 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 315 | 5.4 | |
| With a disability | 877 | 30.0 | Italian | 35 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 59.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,042 | 70.0 | Norwegian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 73.4 | (X) | Polish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 904 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 524 | 58.0 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 34 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 105 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 15 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,562 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,652 | 65.7 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,874 | 33.7 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 884 | 15.9 | Ukrainian | 40 | 0.7 | |
| Different county | 990 | 17.8 | United States or American | 736 | 12.6 | |
| Same state | 566 | 10.2 | Welsh | 31 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 424 | 7.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 36 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 1,734 | 29.8 | |
| 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)

