DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Berks 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 | 373,638 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 94,301 | 100.0 | Native | 357,606 | 95.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 6,397 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 345,712 | 92.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 5,186 | 5.5 | State of residence | 297,579 | 79.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 43,905 | 46.6 | Different state | 48,133 | 12.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 20,628 | 21.9 | Born outside United States | 11,894 | 3.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 18,185 | 19.3 | Foreign born | 16,032 | 4.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 6,853 | 1.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 7,116 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 248,864 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 8,916 | 2.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 19,103 | 7.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 35,548 | 14.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 97,979 | 39.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 16,032 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 36,048 | 14.5 | Europe | 4,628 | 28.9 | |
| Associate degree | 14,175 | 5.7 | Asia | 2,927 | 18.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 29,954 | 12.0 | Africa | 566 | 3.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 16,057 | 6.5 | Oceania | 109 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 7,358 | 45.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.0 | (X) | Northern America | 444 | 2.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 350,815 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 297,036 | 100.0 | English only | 306,373 | 87.3 | |
| Never married | 73,561 | 24.8 | Language other than English | 44,442 | 12.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 170,282 | 57.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17,666 | 5.0 | |
| Separated | 5,974 | 2.0 | Spanish | 28,387 | 8.1 | |
| Widowed | 21,892 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12,729 | 3.6 | |
| Female | 17,070 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 13,117 | 3.7 | |
| Divorced | 25,327 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,495 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 14,339 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,437 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,300 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 373,638 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 5,823 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 403,270 | 107.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,378 | 40.8 | Arab | 538 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,610 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 530 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 281,466 | 100.0 | Dutch | 11,502 | 3.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 37,758 | 13.4 | English | 22,383 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 7,018 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,027 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 132,410 | 35.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 84,311 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,175 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 6,177 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 2,288 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 208,218 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 38,525 | 10.3 | |
| With a disability | 33,618 | 16.1 | Italian | 32,916 | 8.8 | |
| Percent employed | 59.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,758 | 0.5 | |
| No disability | 174,600 | 83.9 | Norwegian | 1,036 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 80.9 | (X) | Polish | 23,681 | 6.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 53,235 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 318 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 20,654 | 38.8 | Russian | 2,547 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 3,337 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 4,257 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 3,771 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 350,815 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 975 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 214,212 | 61.1 | Swedish | 1,987 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 130,424 | 37.2 | Swiss | 3,102 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 85,676 | 24.4 | Ukrainian | 2,981 | 0.8 | |
| Different county | 44,748 | 12.8 | United States or American | 20,872 | 5.6 | |
| Same state | 27,807 | 7.9 | Welsh | 5,977 | 1.6 | |
| Different state | 16,941 | 4.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 795 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 6,179 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 72,954 | 19.5 | |
| 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)
