
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Maury 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 | 69,498 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 16,743 | 100.0 | Native | 68,052 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,221 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 67,698 | 97.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,022 | 6.1 | State of residence | 44,176 | 63.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,281 | 49.5 | Different state | 23,522 | 33.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,881 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 354 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,338 | 14.0 | Foreign born | 1,446 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 831 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 445 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 45,288 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,001 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,708 | 8.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,292 | 13.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 16,463 | 36.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,446 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,839 | 21.7 | Europe | 206 | 14.2 | |
| Associate degree | 2,811 | 6.2 | Asia | 110 | 7.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,990 | 8.8 | Africa | 41 | 2.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,185 | 4.8 | Oceania | 9 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 1,015 | 70.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.9 | (X) | Northern America | 65 | 4.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 64,643 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 54,463 | 100.0 | English only | 62,126 | 96.1 | |
| Never married | 12,095 | 22.2 | Language other than English | 2,517 | 3.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 31,413 | 57.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,098 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 790 | 1.5 | Spanish | 1,838 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 4,111 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 921 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 3,451 | 6.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 529 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 6,054 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 111 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 3,326 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 68 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 69,498 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,416 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 56,748 | 81.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 774 | 54.7 | Arab | 81 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 26 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 99 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 51,199 | 100.0 | Dutch | 860 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,684 | 13.1 | English | 5,195 | 7.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,452 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 281 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,694 | 8.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 15,954 | 100.0 | Greek | 42 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,291 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 108 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 39,834 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,974 | 10.0 | |
| With a disability | 7,674 | 19.3 | Italian | 1,126 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 59.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 92 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 32,160 | 80.7 | Norwegian | 172 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 80.7 | (X) | Polish | 646 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,702 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 42 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,458 | 44.9 | Russian | 89 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,060 | 3.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,028 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 53 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 64,643 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 307 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 35,396 | 54.8 | Swedish | 315 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 28,579 | 44.2 | Swiss | 57 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 15,890 | 24.6 | Ukrainian | 29 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 12,689 | 19.6 | United States or American | 14,421 | 20.8 | |
| Same state | 6,329 | 9.8 | Welsh | 267 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 6,360 | 9.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 668 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 15,222 | 21.9 | |
| 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)

