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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Monroe 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 40,899 100.0
      enrolled in school 10,296 100.0   Native 40,148 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 617 6.0       Born in United States 39,853 97.4
Kindergarten 546 5.3           State of residence 31,402 76.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 5,355 52.0           Different state 8,451 20.7
High school (grades 9-12) 2,751 26.7       Born outside United States 295 0.7
College or graduate school 1,027 10.0   Foreign born 751 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 370 0.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 283 0.7
  Population 25 years and over 26,323 100.0       Not a citizen 468 1.1
Less than 9th grade 2,282 8.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,704 10.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 10,829 41.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 751 100.0
Some college, no degree 5,072 19.3   Europe 223 29.7
Associate degree 1,965 7.5   Asia 130 17.3
Bachelor's degree 2,558 9.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 913 3.5   Oceania 10 1.3
        Latin America 327 43.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 81.1 (X)   Northern America 61 8.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 13.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 38,115 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 31,612 100.0   English only 35,230 92.4
Never married 7,156 22.6   Language other than English 2,885 7.6
Now married, except separated 18,643 59.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,405 3.7
Separated 420 1.3   Spanish 838 2.2
Widowed 2,410 7.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 415 1.1
 Female 2,032 6.4   Other Indo-European languages 1,853 4.9
Divorced 2,983 9.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 908 2.4
 Female 1,512 4.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 117 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 61 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 40,899 100.0
           under 18 years 568 100.0     Total ancestries reported 47,341 115.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 231 40.7   Arab 18 0.0
        Czech¹ 747 1.8
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 852 2.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 29,075 100.0   Dutch 785 1.9
Civilian veterans 5,047 17.4   English 3,103 7.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,044 2.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 327 0.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 19,044 46.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 10,024 100.0   Greek 17 0.0
With a disability 964 9.6   Hungarian 61 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 21,851 100.0   Irish¹ 5,171 12.6
With a disability 3,904 17.9   Italian 596 1.5
 Percent employed 60.7 (X)   Lithuanian 48 0.1
No disability 17,947 82.1   Norwegian 6,057 14.8
 Percent employed 83.9 (X)   Polish 1,515 3.7
     Population 65 years and over 5,180 100.0   Portuguese 12 0.0
With a disability 2,248 43.4   Russian 120 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 346 0.8
        Scottish 510 1.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 30 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 38,115 100.0   Subsaharan African 7 0.0
Same house in 1995 22,277 58.4   Swedish 850 2.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 15,529 40.7   Swiss 484 1.2
 Same county 9,074 23.8   Ukrainian 33 0.1
 Different county 6,455 16.9   United States or American 2,095 5.1
  Same state 3,699 9.7   Welsh 299 0.7
  Different state 2,756 7.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 5 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 309 0.8   Other ancestries 3,165 7.7
 
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.
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