DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Rutherford 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 | 62,899 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 14,178 | 100.0 | Native | 62,019 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 773 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 61,776 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 794 | 5.6 | State of residence | 47,860 | 76.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,234 | 51.0 | Different state | 13,916 | 22.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,009 | 21.2 | Born outside United States | 243 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,368 | 16.7 | Foreign born | 880 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 407 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 284 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 42,889 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 596 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,749 | 11.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,950 | 18.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 14,263 | 33.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 880 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,963 | 18.6 | Europe | 176 | 20.0 | |
| Associate degree | 2,620 | 6.1 | Asia | 122 | 13.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,668 | 8.6 | Africa | 19 | 2.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,676 | 3.9 | Oceania | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 515 | 58.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.4 | (X) | Northern America | 45 | 5.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 58,945 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 50,302 | 100.0 | English only | 57,003 | 96.7 | |
| Never married | 9,520 | 18.9 | Language other than English | 1,942 | 3.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 30,158 | 60.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 916 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 1,598 | 3.2 | Spanish | 1,314 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 4,477 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 646 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 3,786 | 7.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 441 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 4,549 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 175 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,407 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 152 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 88 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 62,899 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,544 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 46,820 | 74.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 840 | 54.4 | Arab | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 37 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 22 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 47,853 | 100.0 | Dutch | 806 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,681 | 14.0 | English | 6,333 | 10.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 659 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 94 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,036 | 8.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 13,178 | 100.0 | Greek | 36 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,031 | 7.8 | Hungarian | 25 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 35,113 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,490 | 8.7 | |
| With a disability | 9,372 | 26.7 | Italian | 676 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 55.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 60 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 25,741 | 73.3 | Norwegian | 126 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 76.9 | (X) | Polish | 315 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 9,225 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 26 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,284 | 46.4 | Russian | 65 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,062 | 3.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,344 | 2.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 15 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 58,945 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 214 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 35,888 | 60.9 | Swedish | 223 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 22,672 | 38.5 | Swiss | 31 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 15,089 | 25.6 | Ukrainian | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 7,583 | 12.9 | United States or American | 11,867 | 18.9 | |
| Same state | 3,976 | 6.7 | Welsh | 140 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 3,607 | 6.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 20 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 385 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 11,055 | 17.6 | |
| 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)
