DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Perry 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 | 7,631 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,594 | 100.0 | Native | 7,594 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 56 | 3.5 | Born in United States | 7,580 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 4.6 | State of residence | 5,725 | 75.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 915 | 57.4 | Different state | 1,855 | 24.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 404 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 14 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 146 | 9.2 | Foreign born | 37 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 25 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 12 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,209 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 25 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 792 | 15.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,096 | 21.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,996 | 38.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 37 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 812 | 15.6 | Europe | 6 | 16.2 | |
| Associate degree | 142 | 2.7 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 209 | 4.0 | Africa | 3 | 8.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 162 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 12 | 32.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.8 | (X) | Northern America | 16 | 43.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,166 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,083 | 100.0 | English only | 6,993 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 1,012 | 16.6 | Language other than English | 173 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,807 | 62.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 56 | 0.9 | Spanish | 58 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 581 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 478 | 7.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 115 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 627 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 290 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,631 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 135 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,600 | 73.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 94 | 69.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 8 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,772 | 100.0 | Dutch | 131 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 767 | 13.3 | English | 414 | 5.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 94 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 10 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 358 | 4.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,579 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 158 | 10.0 | Hungarian | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,315 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 615 | 8.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,031 | 23.9 | Italian | 87 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 43.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,284 | 76.1 | Norwegian | 15 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 74.5 | (X) | Polish | 43 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,149 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 540 | 47.0 | Russian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 103 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 68 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,166 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,759 | 66.4 | Swedish | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,394 | 33.4 | Swiss | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 1,010 | 14.1 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,384 | 19.3 | United States or American | 2,424 | 31.8 | |
| Same state | 799 | 11.1 | Welsh | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 585 | 8.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 13 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 1,112 | 14.6 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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