DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lancaster 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 | 61,351 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 14,891 | 100.0 | Native | 60,524 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 917 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 60,276 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 952 | 6.4 | State of residence | 44,817 | 73.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,537 | 50.6 | Different state | 15,459 | 25.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,549 | 23.8 | Born outside United States | 248 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,936 | 13.0 | Foreign born | 827 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 503 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 239 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 40,520 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 588 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,232 | 10.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,997 | 19.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 14,447 | 35.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 827 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,058 | 17.4 | Europe | 135 | 16.3 | |
| Associate degree | 2,657 | 6.6 | Asia | 139 | 16.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,742 | 6.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,387 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 542 | 65.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.8 | (X) | Northern America | 11 | 1.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 57,411 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 48,151 | 100.0 | English only | 55,399 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 11,476 | 23.8 | Language other than English | 2,012 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 27,031 | 56.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 821 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 1,592 | 3.3 | Spanish | 1,325 | 2.3 | |
| Widowed | 3,869 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 614 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 3,156 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 506 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 4,183 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 124 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 2,327 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 121 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 75 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 61,351 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,701 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 47,623 | 77.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 845 | 49.7 | Arab | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 56 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 38 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 45,769 | 100.0 | Dutch | 228 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,982 | 13.1 | English | 3,082 | 5.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 398 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 79 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,789 | 4.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 13,975 | 100.0 | Greek | 15 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,176 | 8.4 | Hungarian | 25 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 34,310 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,705 | 6.0 | |
| With a disability | 8,173 | 23.8 | Italian | 679 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 54.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 26,137 | 76.2 | Norwegian | 88 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 182 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,326 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 15 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,503 | 47.8 | Russian | 30 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 3,045 | 5.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 798 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 32 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 57,411 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 730 | 1.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 35,985 | 62.7 | Swedish | 86 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 20,831 | 36.3 | Swiss | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 13,084 | 22.8 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 7,747 | 13.5 | United States or American | 14,016 | 22.8 | |
| Same state | 3,533 | 6.2 | Welsh | 155 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 4,214 | 7.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 30 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 595 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 17,260 | 28.1 | |
| 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)
