
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Seneca 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 | 58,683 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 16,006 | 100.0 | Native | 57,959 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,048 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 57,731 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 933 | 5.8 | State of residence | 50,861 | 86.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,972 | 43.6 | Different state | 6,870 | 11.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,783 | 23.6 | Born outside United States | 228 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,270 | 20.4 | Foreign born | 724 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 167 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 348 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 37,271 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 376 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,845 | 5.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,461 | 12.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 17,256 | 46.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 724 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,830 | 18.3 | Europe | 187 | 25.8 | |
| Associate degree | 2,228 | 6.0 | Asia | 277 | 38.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,063 | 8.2 | Africa | 12 | 1.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,588 | 4.3 | Oceania | 7 | 1.0 | |
| Latin America | 182 | 25.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.1 | (X) | Northern America | 59 | 8.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 55,050 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 46,280 | 100.0 | English only | 52,971 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 11,673 | 25.2 | Language other than English | 2,079 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 26,317 | 56.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 693 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 576 | 1.2 | Spanish | 1,352 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 3,133 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 361 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 2,588 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 435 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 4,581 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 144 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,414 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 261 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 186 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 58,683 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 766 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 56,548 | 96.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 332 | 43.3 | Arab | 35 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 119 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 58 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 43,442 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,151 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,930 | 13.7 | English | 4,406 | 7.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,682 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 121 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 25,495 | 43.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 14,443 | 100.0 | Greek | 23 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,068 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 317 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 32,257 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,842 | 10.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,217 | 16.2 | Italian | 1,863 | 3.2 | |
| Percent employed | 56.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 20 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 27,040 | 83.8 | Norwegian | 107 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 83.3 | (X) | Polish | 913 | 1.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,893 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 13 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,133 | 39.7 | Russian | 84 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 452 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 601 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 51 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 55,050 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 88 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 34,486 | 62.6 | Swedish | 228 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 20,368 | 37.0 | Swiss | 409 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 13,002 | 23.6 | Ukrainian | 20 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 7,366 | 13.4 | United States or American | 5,642 | 9.6 | |
| Same state | 5,539 | 10.1 | Welsh | 363 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 1,827 | 3.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 196 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 6,440 | 11.0 | |
| 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)

