
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stewart 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 | 12,370 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,710 | 100.0 | Native | 12,164 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 81 | 3.0 | Born in United States | 11,932 | 96.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 182 | 6.7 | State of residence | 6,711 | 54.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,439 | 53.1 | Different state | 5,221 | 42.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 679 | 25.1 | Born outside United States | 232 | 1.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 329 | 12.1 | Foreign born | 206 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 23 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 129 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,486 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 77 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,118 | 13.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,063 | 12.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,568 | 42.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 206 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,584 | 18.7 | Europe | 81 | 39.3 | |
| Associate degree | 290 | 3.4 | Asia | 114 | 55.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 509 | 6.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 354 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 6 | 2.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.3 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 2.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,661 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,921 | 100.0 | English only | 11,245 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 1,474 | 14.9 | Language other than English | 416 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,554 | 66.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 120 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 126 | 1.3 | Spanish | 102 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 750 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 604 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 135 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,017 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 516 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 152 | 1.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 60 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,370 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 293 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,921 | 80.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 141 | 48.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 48 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 36 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,240 | 100.0 | Dutch | 188 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,961 | 21.2 | English | 982 | 7.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 247 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 71 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,295 | 10.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,680 | 100.0 | Greek | 6 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 204 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,936 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,286 | 10.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,843 | 26.6 | Italian | 216 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 52.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,093 | 73.4 | Norwegian | 51 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 71.1 | (X) | Polish | 92 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,768 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,031 | 58.3 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 469 | 3.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 179 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,661 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,610 | 56.7 | Swedish | 60 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,943 | 42.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,898 | 16.3 | Ukrainian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,045 | 26.1 | United States or American | 2,796 | 22.6 | |
| Same state | 1,440 | 12.3 | Welsh | 100 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,605 | 13.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 108 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 1,749 | 14.1 | |
| 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)

