DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Giles 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 | 16,657 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,462 | 100.0 | Native | 16,532 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 211 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 16,462 | 98.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 210 | 6.1 | State of residence | 12,169 | 73.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,652 | 47.7 | Different state | 4,293 | 25.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 885 | 25.6 | Born outside United States | 70 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 504 | 14.6 | Foreign born | 125 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 41 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 68 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,856 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 57 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,284 | 10.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,571 | 13.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,842 | 40.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 125 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,997 | 16.8 | Europe | 48 | 38.4 | |
| Associate degree | 686 | 5.8 | Asia | 43 | 34.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 887 | 7.5 | Africa | 9 | 7.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 589 | 5.0 | Oceania | 2 | 1.6 | |
| Latin America | 18 | 14.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.9 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 4.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,728 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,627 | 100.0 | English only | 15,415 | 98.0 | |
| Never married | 2,408 | 17.7 | Language other than English | 313 | 2.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,225 | 60.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 85 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 320 | 2.3 | Spanish | 139 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,333 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,110 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 154 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,341 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 673 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,657 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 276 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,589 | 69.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 168 | 60.9 | Arab | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 30 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 13,004 | 100.0 | Dutch | 271 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,825 | 14.0 | English | 1,432 | 8.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 190 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 23 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,648 | 9.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,246 | 100.0 | Greek | 24 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 284 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,703 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,662 | 10.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,309 | 23.8 | Italian | 210 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 48.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 33 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 7,394 | 76.2 | Norwegian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.5 | (X) | Polish | 88 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,713 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,296 | 47.8 | Russian | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 289 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 218 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,728 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,697 | 68.0 | Swedish | 62 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,994 | 31.8 | Swiss | 35 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 2,887 | 18.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,107 | 13.4 | United States or American | 3,819 | 22.9 | |
| Same state | 1,017 | 6.5 | Welsh | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,090 | 6.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 37 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 1,404 | 8.4 | |
| 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
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