DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Putnam 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 | 62,315 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 17,803 | 100.0 | Native | 60,185 | 96.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 950 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 59,901 | 96.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 742 | 4.2 | State of residence | 41,257 | 66.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,135 | 34.5 | Different state | 18,644 | 29.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,018 | 17.0 | Born outside United States | 284 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 6,958 | 39.1 | Foreign born | 2,130 | 3.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,331 | 2.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 583 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 39,403 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,547 | 2.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,580 | 14.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,233 | 13.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,642 | 32.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,130 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,027 | 17.8 | Europe | 263 | 12.3 | |
| Associate degree | 942 | 2.4 | Asia | 538 | 25.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,927 | 12.5 | Africa | 14 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,052 | 7.7 | Oceania | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 1,175 | 55.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.6 | (X) | Northern America | 137 | 6.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 58,541 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 50,846 | 100.0 | English only | 55,460 | 94.7 | |
| Never married | 13,262 | 26.1 | Language other than English | 3,081 | 5.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 28,035 | 55.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,737 | 3.0 | |
| Separated | 721 | 1.4 | Spanish | 1,989 | 3.4 | |
| Widowed | 3,419 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,280 | 2.2 | |
| Female | 2,937 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 503 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 5,409 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 181 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 3,042 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 500 | 0.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 224 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 62,315 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 964 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 47,919 | 76.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 467 | 48.4 | Arab | 84 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 85 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 59 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 48,429 | 100.0 | Dutch | 654 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,851 | 12.1 | English | 6,449 | 10.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,178 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 231 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,050 | 8.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 14,042 | 100.0 | Greek | 42 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,214 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 90 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 36,009 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,438 | 8.7 | |
| With a disability | 7,564 | 21.0 | Italian | 853 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 48.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 63 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 28,445 | 79.0 | Norwegian | 298 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 78.7 | (X) | Polish | 553 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,827 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 34 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,993 | 51.0 | Russian | 57 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,743 | 2.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,011 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 14 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 58,541 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 73 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 28,284 | 48.3 | Swedish | 93 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 29,330 | 50.1 | Swiss | 49 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 14,567 | 24.9 | Ukrainian | 19 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 14,763 | 25.2 | United States or American | 15,210 | 24.4 | |
| Same state | 8,493 | 14.5 | Welsh | 322 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 6,270 | 10.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 927 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 8,151 | 13.1 | |
| 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)
