
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tipton 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 | 51,271 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 14,163 | 100.0 | Native | 50,840 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 983 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 50,485 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 828 | 5.8 | State of residence | 35,741 | 69.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,158 | 50.5 | Different state | 14,744 | 28.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,425 | 24.2 | Born outside United States | 355 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,769 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 431 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 184 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 220 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 31,856 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 211 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,877 | 9.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,223 | 16.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 11,691 | 36.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 431 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,852 | 21.5 | Europe | 154 | 35.7 | |
| Associate degree | 1,769 | 5.6 | Asia | 60 | 13.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,372 | 7.4 | Africa | 13 | 3.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,072 | 3.4 | Oceania | 17 | 3.9 | |
| Latin America | 146 | 33.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.6 | (X) | Northern America | 41 | 9.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 47,682 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 38,803 | 100.0 | English only | 46,594 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 8,260 | 21.3 | Language other than English | 1,088 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,298 | 60.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 371 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 899 | 2.3 | Spanish | 692 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 2,699 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 275 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 2,266 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 214 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 3,647 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 51 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 2,007 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 106 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 51,271 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,462 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 39,697 | 77.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 819 | 56.0 | Arab | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 59 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 63 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 35,965 | 100.0 | Dutch | 559 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,492 | 15.3 | English | 3,544 | 6.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 803 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 241 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,818 | 7.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 13,350 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,146 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 21 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 28,314 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,795 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 5,707 | 20.2 | Italian | 915 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 52.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 22,607 | 79.8 | Norwegian | 207 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 79.1 | (X) | Polish | 290 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,840 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 29 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,373 | 49.0 | Russian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,054 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 655 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 47,682 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 215 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 25,211 | 52.9 | Swedish | 212 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 21,921 | 46.0 | Swiss | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 9,637 | 20.2 | Ukrainian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 12,284 | 25.8 | United States or American | 8,300 | 16.2 | |
| Same state | 7,281 | 15.3 | Welsh | 209 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 5,003 | 10.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 40 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 550 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 13,552 | 26.4 | |
| 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)

