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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Charlottesville city
[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 45,049 100.0
      enrolled in school 20,969 100.0   Native 41,942 93.1
Nursery school, preschool 509 2.4       Born in United States 41,104 91.2
Kindergarten 413 2.0           State of residence 24,121 53.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 3,054 14.6           Different state 16,983 37.7
High school (grades 9-12) 1,492 7.1       Born outside United States 838 1.9
College or graduate school 15,501 73.9   Foreign born 3,107 6.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,813 4.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,017 2.3
  Population 25 years and over 22,868 100.0       Not a citizen 2,090 4.6
Less than 9th grade 1,624 7.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,758 12.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 4,900 21.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 3,107 100.0
Some college, no degree 3,501 15.3   Europe 782 25.2
Associate degree 762 3.3   Asia 1,395 44.9
Bachelor's degree 4,437 19.4   Africa 213 6.9
Graduate or professional degree 4,886 21.4   Oceania 56 1.8
        Latin America 529 17.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.8 (X)   Northern America 132 4.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 40.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 43,051 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 39,202 100.0   English only 38,427 89.3
Never married 22,003 56.1   Language other than English 4,624 10.7
Now married, except separated 11,395 29.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,244 2.9
Separated 728 1.9   Spanish 1,278 3.0
Widowed 2,017 5.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 412 1.0
 Female 1,612 4.1   Other Indo-European languages 1,671 3.9
Divorced 3,059 7.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 283 0.7
 Female 1,866 4.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 1,415 3.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 499 1.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 45,049 100.0
           under 18 years 557 100.0     Total ancestries reported 45,180 100.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 216 38.8   Arab 191 0.4
        Czech¹ 168 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 124 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 38,179 100.0   Dutch 587 1.3
Civilian veterans 2,838 7.4   English 5,412 12.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,010 2.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 283 0.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 5,408 12.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 13,298 100.0   Greek 241 0.5
With a disability 717 5.4   Hungarian 229 0.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 25,207 100.0   Irish¹ 4,379 9.7
With a disability 3,419 13.6   Italian 1,797 4.0
 Percent employed 62.6 (X)   Lithuanian 57 0.1
No disability 21,788 86.4   Norwegian 345 0.8
 Percent employed 71.0 (X)   Polish 1,002 2.2
     Population 65 years and over 4,202 100.0   Portuguese 76 0.2
With a disability 1,735 41.3   Russian 557 1.2
        Scotch-Irish 1,209 2.7
        Scottish 1,579 3.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 90 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 43,051 100.0   Subsaharan African 504 1.1
Same house in 1995 15,112 35.1   Swedish 435 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 26,029 60.5   Swiss 173 0.4
 Same county 3,742 8.7   Ukrainian 91 0.2
 Different county 22,287 51.8   United States or American 3,316 7.4
  Same state 14,445 33.6   Welsh 498 1.1
  Different state 7,842 18.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 136 0.3
Elsewhere in 1995 1,910 4.4   Other ancestries 15,283 33.9
 
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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