DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clarendon 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 | 32,502 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,452 | 100.0 | Native | 32,095 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 486 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 31,954 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 545 | 6.4 | State of residence | 26,355 | 81.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,055 | 48.0 | Different state | 5,599 | 17.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,483 | 29.4 | Born outside United States | 141 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 883 | 10.4 | Foreign born | 407 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 217 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 101 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 20,698 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 306 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,703 | 13.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,475 | 21.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,142 | 34.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 407 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,999 | 14.5 | Europe | 92 | 22.6 | |
| Associate degree | 1,023 | 4.9 | Asia | 81 | 19.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,593 | 7.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 763 | 3.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 234 | 57.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.3 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 30,529 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 25,644 | 100.0 | English only | 29,504 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 7,789 | 30.4 | Language other than English | 1,025 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,487 | 48.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 422 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 1,035 | 4.0 | Spanish | 676 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 2,573 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 313 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 2,040 | 8.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 206 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,760 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 987 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 88 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 32,502 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,266 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 24,780 | 76.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 783 | 61.8 | Arab | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 18 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 24 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,066 | 100.0 | Dutch | 136 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,763 | 11.5 | English | 1,596 | 4.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 255 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 25 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 947 | 2.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,574 | 100.0 | Greek | 35 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 721 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 17,068 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,010 | 3.1 | |
| With a disability | 5,486 | 32.1 | Italian | 194 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 51.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 11,582 | 67.9 | Norwegian | 48 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 68.1 | (X) | Polish | 132 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,472 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,117 | 47.3 | Russian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 586 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 258 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 30,529 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 266 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 19,661 | 64.4 | Swedish | 94 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,639 | 34.8 | Swiss | 37 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 5,477 | 17.9 | Ukrainian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,162 | 16.9 | United States or American | 3,606 | 11.1 | |
| Same state | 2,895 | 9.5 | Welsh | 40 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 2,267 | 7.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 229 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 15,401 | 47.4 | |
| 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
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