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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Wood 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 121,065 100.0
      enrolled in school 42,352 100.0   Native 118,140 97.6
Nursery school, preschool 2,168 5.1       Born in United States 117,487 97.0
Kindergarten 1,550 3.7           State of residence 95,819 79.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 13,247 31.3           Different state 21,668 17.9
High school (grades 9-12) 7,229 17.1       Born outside United States 653 0.5
College or graduate school 18,158 42.9   Foreign born 2,925 2.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,383 1.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,186 1.0
  Population 25 years and over 71,551 100.0       Not a citizen 1,739 1.4
Less than 9th grade 1,761 2.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 6,389 8.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 24,887 34.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 2,925 100.0
Some college, no degree 14,602 20.4   Europe 993 33.9
Associate degree 5,177 7.2   Asia 1,120 38.3
Bachelor's degree 11,347 15.9   Africa 31 1.1
Graduate or professional degree 7,388 10.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 462 15.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 88.6 (X)   Northern America 319 10.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 26.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 114,025 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 97,953 100.0   English only 107,445 94.2
Never married 30,246 30.9   Language other than English 6,580 5.8
Now married, except separated 52,857 54.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,711 1.5
Separated 1,008 1.0   Spanish 3,257 2.9
Widowed 5,614 5.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 908 0.8
 Female 4,564 4.7   Other Indo-European languages 2,286 2.0
Divorced 8,228 8.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 448 0.4
 Female 4,580 4.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 739 0.6
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 321 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 121,065 100.0
           under 18 years 1,309 100.0     Total ancestries reported 129,055 106.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 639 48.8   Arab 539 0.4
        Czech¹ 950 0.8
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 341 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 92,354 100.0   Dutch 2,217 1.8
Civilian veterans 10,458 11.3   English 12,565 10.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 4,781 3.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 823 0.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 43,534 36.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 32,391 100.0   Greek 282 0.2
With a disability 2,473 7.6   Hungarian 2,830 2.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 68,089 100.0   Irish¹ 13,849 11.4
With a disability 9,074 13.3   Italian 4,247 3.5
 Percent employed 68.5 (X)   Lithuanian 138 0.1
No disability 59,015 86.7   Norwegian 733 0.6
 Percent employed 81.7 (X)   Polish 7,370 6.1
     Population 65 years and over 12,409 100.0   Portuguese 99 0.1
With a disability 4,851 39.1   Russian 586 0.5
        Scotch-Irish 1,549 1.3
        Scottish 2,774 2.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 1,011 0.8
  Population 5 years and over 114,025 100.0   Subsaharan African 146 0.1
Same house in 1995 60,890 53.4   Swedish 1,159 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 51,873 45.5   Swiss 1,053 0.9
 Same county 20,968 18.4   Ukrainian 463 0.4
 Different county 30,905 27.1   United States or American 9,239 7.6
  Same state 23,428 20.5   Welsh 1,262 1.0
  Different state 7,477 6.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 120 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 1,262 1.1   Other ancestries 14,395 11.9
 
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.
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