
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Putnam 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 | 51,589 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 12,580 | 100.0 | Native | 51,059 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 934 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 50,896 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 783 | 6.2 | State of residence | 40,667 | 78.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,834 | 46.4 | Different state | 10,229 | 19.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,924 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 163 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,105 | 16.7 | Foreign born | 530 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 149 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 316 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 34,854 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 214 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,147 | 6.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,506 | 10.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,520 | 38.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 530 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,827 | 19.6 | Europe | 179 | 33.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,995 | 5.7 | Asia | 249 | 47.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,446 | 12.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,413 | 6.9 | Oceania | 13 | 2.5 | |
| Latin America | 74 | 14.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.8 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 2.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 48,234 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 40,888 | 100.0 | English only | 47,151 | 97.8 | |
| Never married | 7,218 | 17.7 | Language other than English | 1,083 | 2.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 26,699 | 65.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 208 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 542 | 1.3 | Spanish | 494 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 2,505 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 87 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 2,086 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 414 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 3,924 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 57 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 2,200 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 128 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 55 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 51,589 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 588 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 40,795 | 79.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 298 | 50.7 | Arab | 123 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 53 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 54 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 38,652 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,031 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,342 | 13.8 | English | 5,630 | 10.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 819 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 84 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,599 | 12.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 11,129 | 100.0 | Greek | 172 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 778 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 98 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 31,029 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,414 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 5,191 | 16.7 | Italian | 1,472 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 45.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 52 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 25,838 | 83.3 | Norwegian | 143 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 76.6 | (X) | Polish | 479 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,858 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 33 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,726 | 46.5 | Russian | 38 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,101 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 789 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 78 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 48,234 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 80 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 28,685 | 59.5 | Swedish | 223 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 19,379 | 40.2 | Swiss | 115 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 8,864 | 18.4 | Ukrainian | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 10,515 | 21.8 | United States or American | 10,826 | 21.0 | |
| Same state | 6,795 | 14.1 | Welsh | 351 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 3,720 | 7.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 170 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 4,928 | 9.6 | |
| 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)

