
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pike 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 | 46,302 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,944 | 100.0 | Native | 44,010 | 95.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 818 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 43,626 | 94.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 696 | 5.8 | State of residence | 9,627 | 20.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,248 | 52.3 | Different state | 33,999 | 73.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,770 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 384 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,412 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 2,292 | 5.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 338 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,493 | 3.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 31,525 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 799 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 802 | 2.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,364 | 10.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,004 | 41.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,292 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,398 | 20.3 | Europe | 1,307 | 57.0 | |
| Associate degree | 1,971 | 6.3 | Asia | 261 | 11.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,861 | 12.2 | Africa | 29 | 1.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,125 | 6.7 | Oceania | 15 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 582 | 25.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.8 | (X) | Northern America | 98 | 4.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 43,628 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 36,003 | 100.0 | English only | 39,862 | 91.4 | |
| Never married | 6,737 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 3,766 | 8.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,265 | 64.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,152 | 2.6 | |
| Separated | 714 | 2.0 | Spanish | 1,692 | 3.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,438 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 454 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 1,861 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,783 | 4.1 | |
| Divorced | 2,849 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 596 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 1,508 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 212 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 82 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 46,302 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 734 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 57,801 | 124.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 239 | 32.6 | Arab | 71 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 388 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 123 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 33,996 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,785 | 3.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,915 | 17.4 | English | 4,230 | 9.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,233 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 265 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 11,567 | 25.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,779 | 100.0 | Greek | 190 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 764 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 683 | 1.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 25,656 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 10,994 | 23.7 | |
| With a disability | 5,096 | 19.9 | Italian | 9,138 | 19.7 | |
| Percent employed | 58.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 156 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 20,560 | 80.1 | Norwegian | 689 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 72.8 | (X) | Polish | 3,229 | 7.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,909 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 97 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,559 | 37.0 | Russian | 862 | 1.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 673 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 813 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 325 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 43,628 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 67 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 26,348 | 60.4 | Swedish | 655 | 1.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 17,089 | 39.2 | Swiss | 248 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 4,006 | 9.2 | Ukrainian | 299 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 13,083 | 30.0 | United States or American | 1,812 | 3.9 | |
| Same state | 2,625 | 6.0 | Welsh | 477 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 10,458 | 24.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 165 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 191 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 6,567 | 14.2 | |
| 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)

