DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: York 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 | 164,614 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 44,094 | 100.0 | Native | 160,634 | 97.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,959 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 159,634 | 97.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,818 | 6.4 | State of residence | 84,471 | 51.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 20,611 | 46.7 | Different state | 75,163 | 45.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 8,989 | 20.4 | Born outside United States | 1,000 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 8,717 | 19.8 | Foreign born | 3,980 | 2.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,035 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,478 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 105,757 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,502 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 8,177 | 7.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 15,888 | 15.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 30,127 | 28.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3,980 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 21,842 | 20.7 | Europe | 919 | 23.1 | |
| Associate degree | 7,610 | 7.2 | Asia | 1,031 | 25.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 14,945 | 14.1 | Africa | 154 | 3.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 7,168 | 6.8 | Oceania | 20 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 1,603 | 40.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.2 | (X) | Northern America | 253 | 6.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 153,591 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 128,213 | 100.0 | English only | 146,479 | 95.4 | |
| Never married | 30,496 | 23.8 | Language other than English | 7,112 | 4.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 75,000 | 58.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,979 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 3,517 | 2.7 | Spanish | 4,122 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 8,040 | 6.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,961 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 6,641 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,728 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 11,160 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 459 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 6,211 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,066 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 514 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 164,614 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,791 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 140,878 | 85.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,894 | 50.0 | Arab | 181 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 289 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 131 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 121,282 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,236 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 16,746 | 13.8 | English | 14,213 | 8.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,055 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 532 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 15,427 | 9.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 39,086 | 100.0 | Greek | 199 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,384 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 604 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 96,687 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 14,873 | 9.0 | |
| With a disability | 19,461 | 20.1 | Italian | 4,090 | 2.5 | |
| Percent employed | 61.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 109 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 77,226 | 79.9 | Norwegian | 713 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 1,941 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 16,021 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 30 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 7,239 | 45.2 | Russian | 264 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 9,585 | 5.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,576 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 177 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 153,591 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 941 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 80,253 | 52.3 | Swedish | 778 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 71,425 | 46.5 | Swiss | 92 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 38,080 | 24.8 | Ukrainian | 196 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 33,345 | 21.7 | United States or American | 24,513 | 14.9 | |
| Same state | 7,866 | 5.1 | Welsh | 676 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 25,479 | 16.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 129 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,913 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 41,328 | 25.1 | |
| 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)
