
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Holmes 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 | 38,943 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,965 | 100.0 | Native | 38,675 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 448 | 5.0 | Born in United States | 38,581 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 640 | 7.1 | State of residence | 35,851 | 92.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,127 | 68.3 | Different state | 2,730 | 7.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,378 | 15.4 | Born outside United States | 94 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 372 | 4.1 | Foreign born | 268 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 86 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 167 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 21,016 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 101 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 7,138 | 34.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,047 | 14.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,762 | 32.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 268 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,893 | 9.0 | Europe | 130 | 48.5 | |
| Associate degree | 440 | 2.1 | Asia | 52 | 19.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,228 | 5.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 508 | 2.4 | Oceania | 4 | 1.5 | |
| Latin America | 77 | 28.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 51.5 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 34,949 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 27,250 | 100.0 | English only | 19,528 | 55.9 | |
| Never married | 7,365 | 27.0 | Language other than English | 15,421 | 44.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 16,860 | 61.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8,369 | 23.9 | |
| Separated | 148 | 0.5 | Spanish | 306 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,362 | 5.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 108 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,132 | 4.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 15,034 | 43.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,515 | 5.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8,261 | 23.6 | |
| Female | 716 | 2.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 59 | 0.2 | |
| 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 | 38,943 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 386 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 30,230 | 77.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 133 | 34.5 | Arab | 35 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 29 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 25,062 | 100.0 | Dutch | 636 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,884 | 7.5 | English | 1,700 | 4.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 443 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 32 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 10,644 | 27.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 11,748 | 100.0 | Greek | 21 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 874 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 103 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,866 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,847 | 4.7 | |
| With a disability | 3,454 | 18.3 | Italian | 453 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 68.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 13 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 15,412 | 81.7 | Norwegian | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 73.7 | (X) | Polish | 249 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,435 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,432 | 41.7 | Russian | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 265 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 254 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 35 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 34,949 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 23,882 | 68.3 | Swedish | 170 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,844 | 31.0 | Swiss | 3,118 | 8.0 | |
| Same county | 7,251 | 20.7 | Ukrainian | 60 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 3,593 | 10.3 | United States or American | 6,587 | 16.9 | |
| Same state | 2,954 | 8.5 | Welsh | 141 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 639 | 1.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 223 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 3,332 | 8.6 | |
| 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)

