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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Albemarle 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 79,236 100.0
      enrolled in school 21,699 100.0   Native 73,483 92.7
Nursery school, preschool 1,615 7.4       Born in United States 72,730 91.8
Kindergarten 1,199 5.5           State of residence 39,195 49.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 9,301 42.9           Different state 33,535 42.3
High school (grades 9-12) 4,205 19.4       Born outside United States 753 1.0
College or graduate school 5,379 24.8   Foreign born 5,753 7.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 3,271 4.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,791 2.3
  Population 25 years and over 53,847 100.0       Not a citizen 3,962 5.0
Less than 9th grade 2,844 5.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 3,915 7.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 9,591 17.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 5,753 100.0
Some college, no degree 8,848 16.4   Europe 1,732 30.1
Associate degree 2,974 5.5   Asia 2,127 37.0
Bachelor's degree 13,260 24.6   Africa 240 4.2
Graduate or professional degree 12,415 23.1   Oceania 107 1.9
        Latin America 1,212 21.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 87.4 (X)   Northern America 335 5.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 47.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 74,250 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 62,654 100.0   English only 67,834 91.4
Never married 15,104 24.1   Language other than English 6,416 8.6
Now married, except separated 36,834 58.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2,438 3.3
Separated 1,138 1.8   Spanish 2,182 2.9
Widowed 3,820 6.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 970 1.3
 Female 3,004 4.8   Other Indo-European languages 2,473 3.3
Divorced 5,758 9.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 658 0.9
 Female 3,556 5.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 1,554 2.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 725 1.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 79,236 100.0
           under 18 years 1,068 100.0     Total ancestries reported 80,559 101.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 498 46.6   Arab 245 0.3
        Czech¹ 274 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 373 0.5
          Civilian population 18 years and over 59,427 100.0   Dutch 1,153 1.5
Civilian veterans 7,358 12.4   English 13,602 17.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 2,265 2.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 494 0.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 11,393 14.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 16,483 100.0   Greek 220 0.3
With a disability 1,124 6.8   Hungarian 281 0.4
     Population 21 to 64 years 47,045 100.0   Irish¹ 8,836 11.2
With a disability 5,652 12.0   Italian 3,469 4.4
 Percent employed 64.3 (X)   Lithuanian 183 0.2
No disability 41,393 88.0   Norwegian 696 0.9
 Percent employed 79.5 (X)   Polish 1,567 2.0
     Population 65 years and over 9,186 100.0   Portuguese 97 0.1
With a disability 2,996 32.6   Russian 782 1.0
        Scotch-Irish 2,824 3.6
        Scottish 2,986 3.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 250 0.3
  Population 5 years and over 74,250 100.0   Subsaharan African 407 0.5
Same house in 1995 37,001 49.8   Swedish 812 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 34,648 46.7   Swiss 319 0.4
 Same county 12,925 17.4   Ukrainian 234 0.3
 Different county 21,723 29.3   United States or American 9,140 11.5
  Same state 9,965 13.4   Welsh 661 0.8
  Different state 11,758 15.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 166 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995 2,601 3.5   Other ancestries 16,830 21.2
 
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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