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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Waynesboro 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 19,520 100.0
      enrolled in school 4,309 100.0   Native 19,049 97.6
Nursery school, preschool 409 9.5       Born in United States 18,909 96.9
Kindergarten 281 6.5           State of residence 13,802 70.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,093 48.6           Different state 5,107 26.2
High school (grades 9-12) 1,038 24.1       Born outside United States 140 0.7
College or graduate school 488 11.3   Foreign born 471 2.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 246 1.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 178 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 13,303 100.0       Not a citizen 293 1.5
Less than 9th grade 1,136 8.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,807 13.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 4,503 33.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 471 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,597 19.5   Europe 123 26.1
Associate degree 521 3.9   Asia 32 6.8
Bachelor's degree 1,828 13.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 911 6.8   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 311 66.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 77.9 (X)   Northern America 5 1.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 20.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 18,289 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 15,567 100.0   English only 17,373 95.0
Never married 3,342 21.5   Language other than English 916 5.0
Now married, except separated 8,501 54.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 473 2.6
Separated 683 4.4   Spanish 671 3.7
Widowed 1,110 7.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 421 2.3
 Female 1,000 6.4   Other Indo-European languages 198 1.1
Divorced 1,931 12.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 42 0.2
 Female 1,129 7.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 19,520 100.0
           under 18 years 466 100.0     Total ancestries reported 17,334 88.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 306 65.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 59 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 14,811 100.0   Dutch 209 1.1
Civilian veterans 2,406 16.2   English 2,105 10.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 299 1.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 39 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,641 13.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 4,012 100.0   Greek 63 0.3
With a disability 272 6.8   Hungarian 95 0.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 10,781 100.0   Irish¹ 1,883 9.6
With a disability 2,988 27.7   Italian 462 2.4
 Percent employed 56.2 (X)   Lithuanian 19 0.1
No disability 7,793 72.3   Norwegian 74 0.4
 Percent employed 78.3 (X)   Polish 275 1.4
     Population 65 years and over 3,194 100.0   Portuguese 18 0.1
With a disability 1,340 42.0   Russian 49 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 785 4.0
        Scottish 407 2.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 9 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 18,289 100.0   Subsaharan African 74 0.4
Same house in 1995 9,515 52.0   Swedish 113 0.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 8,564 46.8   Swiss 87 0.4
 Same county 1,525 8.3   Ukrainian 14 0.1
 Different county 7,039 38.5   United States or American 3,890 19.9
  Same state 5,488 30.0   Welsh 133 0.7
  Different state 1,551 8.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 210 1.1   Other ancestries 3,532 18.1
 
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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