
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Prince George 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 | 33,047 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,720 | 100.0 | Native | 31,544 | 95.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 404 | 4.6 | Born in United States | 30,386 | 91.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 586 | 6.7 | State of residence | 17,079 | 51.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,006 | 45.9 | Different state | 13,307 | 40.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,986 | 22.8 | Born outside United States | 1,158 | 3.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,738 | 19.9 | Foreign born | 1,503 | 4.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 501 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 670 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 20,272 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 833 | 2.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,293 | 6.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,428 | 12.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,443 | 31.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,503 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,743 | 23.4 | Europe | 415 | 27.6 | |
| Associate degree | 1,437 | 7.1 | Asia | 466 | 31.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,752 | 13.6 | Africa | 29 | 1.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,176 | 5.8 | Oceania | 32 | 2.1 | |
| Latin America | 553 | 36.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.6 | (X) | Northern America | 8 | 0.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 31,074 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 26,209 | 100.0 | English only | 28,013 | 90.1 | |
| Never married | 7,008 | 26.7 | Language other than English | 3,061 | 9.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,401 | 58.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 894 | 2.9 | |
| Separated | 818 | 3.1 | Spanish | 1,582 | 5.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,114 | 4.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 449 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 880 | 3.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 899 | 2.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,868 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 180 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,065 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 533 | 1.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 252 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 33,047 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 579 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 29,582 | 89.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 273 | 47.2 | Arab | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 481 | 1.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 62 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 20,841 | 100.0 | Dutch | 379 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,301 | 20.6 | English | 2,566 | 7.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 574 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 162 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,957 | 8.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,168 | 100.0 | Greek | 150 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 512 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 93 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 15,298 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,307 | 7.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,828 | 18.5 | Italian | 959 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 54.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 37 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 12,470 | 81.5 | Norwegian | 305 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 78.2 | (X) | Polish | 496 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,381 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,152 | 48.4 | Russian | 55 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 467 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 446 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 73 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 31,074 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 368 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,479 | 49.8 | Swedish | 146 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,295 | 46.0 | Swiss | 57 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 2,778 | 8.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 11,517 | 37.1 | United States or American | 3,538 | 10.7 | |
| Same state | 5,486 | 17.7 | Welsh | 131 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 6,031 | 19.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 274 | 0.8 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,300 | 4.2 | Other ancestries | 12,449 | 37.7 | |
| 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)

