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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Greene 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 62,909 100.0
      enrolled in school 13,201 100.0   Native 62,080 98.7
Nursery school, preschool 691 5.2       Born in United States 61,777 98.2
Kindergarten 765 5.8           State of residence 46,704 74.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 6,430 48.7           Different state 15,073 24.0
High school (grades 9-12) 3,197 24.2       Born outside United States 303 0.5
College or graduate school 2,118 16.0   Foreign born 829 1.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 429 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 305 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 43,752 100.0       Not a citizen 524 0.8
Less than 9th grade 6,580 15.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 6,712 15.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 16,388 37.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 829 100.0
Some college, no degree 6,876 15.7   Europe 253 30.5
Associate degree 1,610 3.7   Asia 168 20.3
Bachelor's degree 3,485 8.0   Africa 10 1.2
Graduate or professional degree 2,101 4.8   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 324 39.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 69.6 (X)   Northern America 74 8.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 59,210 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 51,247 100.0   English only 57,443 97.0
Never married 9,211 18.0   Language other than English 1,767 3.0
Now married, except separated 31,268 61.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 700 1.2
Separated 680 1.3   Spanish 921 1.6
Widowed 4,127 8.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 415 0.7
 Female 3,380 6.6   Other Indo-European languages 631 1.1
Divorced 5,961 11.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 211 0.4
 Female 3,263 6.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 175 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 53 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 62,909 100.0
           under 18 years 1,341 100.0     Total ancestries reported 44,468 70.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 764 57.0   Arab 28 0.0
        Czech¹ 52 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 115 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 48,836 100.0   Dutch 1,037 1.6
Civilian veterans 6,481 13.3   English 4,400 7.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 636 1.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 111 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 5,669 9.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 12,572 100.0   Greek 146 0.2
With a disability 1,345 10.7   Hungarian 84 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 36,707 100.0   Irish¹ 4,886 7.8
With a disability 9,858 26.9   Italian 942 1.5
 Percent employed 50.9 (X)   Lithuanian 7 0.0
No disability 26,849 73.1   Norwegian 186 0.3
 Percent employed 77.6 (X)   Polish 396 0.6
     Population 65 years and over 8,749 100.0   Portuguese 56 0.1
With a disability 4,069 46.5   Russian 28 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 1,671 2.7
        Scottish 744 1.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 20 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 59,210 100.0   Subsaharan African 62 0.1
Same house in 1995 35,019 59.1   Swedish 260 0.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 23,729 40.1   Swiss 105 0.2
 Same county 14,389 24.3   Ukrainian 11 0.0
 Different county 9,340 15.8   United States or American 15,532 24.7
  Same state 4,279 7.2   Welsh 169 0.3
  Different state 5,061 8.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 61 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 462 0.8   Other ancestries 7,054 11.2
 
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.
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