
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: McKean 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 | 45,936 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,674 | 100.0 | Native | 45,306 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 601 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 45,079 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 573 | 5.4 | State of residence | 33,266 | 72.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,252 | 49.2 | Different state | 11,813 | 25.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,592 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 227 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,656 | 15.5 | Foreign born | 630 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 116 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 305 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 31,529 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 325 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,347 | 4.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,252 | 13.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 15,107 | 47.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 630 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,715 | 15.0 | Europe | 194 | 30.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,683 | 5.3 | Asia | 186 | 29.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,806 | 8.9 | Africa | 2 | 0.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,619 | 5.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 210 | 33.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.2 | (X) | Northern America | 38 | 6.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 43,338 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 37,038 | 100.0 | English only | 41,816 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 8,456 | 22.8 | Language other than English | 1,522 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,035 | 56.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 412 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 849 | 2.3 | Spanish | 623 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 3,167 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 213 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,503 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 737 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 3,531 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 135 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,735 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 95 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 44 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 45,936 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 535 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 48,353 | 105.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 193 | 36.1 | Arab | 84 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 328 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 57 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 35,012 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,249 | 2.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,842 | 16.7 | English | 4,592 | 10.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,108 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 333 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 11,008 | 24.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,947 | 100.0 | Greek | 68 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 885 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 61 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 24,282 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,124 | 15.5 | |
| With a disability | 4,460 | 18.4 | Italian | 5,230 | 11.4 | |
| Percent employed | 49.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 19,822 | 81.6 | Norwegian | 191 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 80.7 | (X) | Polish | 1,733 | 3.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,118 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,902 | 40.8 | Russian | 87 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 925 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 824 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 347 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 43,338 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 60 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 27,799 | 64.1 | Swedish | 4,131 | 9.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 15,327 | 35.4 | Swiss | 175 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 9,930 | 22.9 | Ukrainian | 103 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 5,397 | 12.5 | United States or American | 3,799 | 8.3 | |
| Same state | 2,500 | 5.8 | Welsh | 419 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 2,897 | 6.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 55 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 212 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 4,225 | 9.2 | |
| 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)

