| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT |
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|
|
NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH |
|
|
| Population
3 years and over |
|
|
|
Total poplulation |
2,790,781 |
100.0 |
| enrolled
in school |
776,279 |
100.0 |
|
Native |
2,757,004 |
98.8 |
| Nursery school, preschool |
54,281 |
7.0 |
|
Born in United States |
2,742,537 |
98.3 |
| Kindergarten |
45,175 |
5.8 |
|
State
of residence |
2,207,759 |
79.1 |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) |
356,427 |
45.9 |
|
Different
state |
534,778 |
19.2 |
| High school (grades 9-12) |
173,124 |
22.3 |
|
Born outside United
States |
14,467 |
0.5 |
| College or graduate school |
147,272 |
19.0 |
|
Foreign born |
33,777 |
1.2 |
| |
|
|
|
Entered
1990 to March 2000 |
15,272 |
0.5 |
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT |
|
|
|
Naturalized citizen |
14,601 |
0.5 |
| Population 25 years and over |
1,730,111 |
100.0 |
|
Not a citizen |
19,176 |
0.7 |
| Less than 9th grade |
164,893 |
9.5 |
|
|
|
|
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma |
299,250 |
17.3 |
|
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN |
|
|
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) |
540,830 |
31.3 |
|
Total (excluding born at sea) |
33,777 |
100.0 |
| Some college, no degree |
348,543 |
20.1 |
|
Europe |
7,022 |
20.8 |
| Associate degree |
78,338 |
4.5 |
|
Asia |
12,613 |
37.3 |
| Bachelor's degree |
194,359 |
11.2 |
|
Africa |
1,165 |
3.4 |
| Graduate or professional degree |
103,898 |
6.0 |
|
Oceania |
263 |
0.8 |
| |
|
|
|
Latin America |
11,404 |
33.8 |
| Percent high school graduate or higher |
73.2 |
(X) |
|
Northern America |
1,310 |
3.9 |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher |
17.2 |
(X) |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME |
|
|
| MARITAL STATUS |
|
|
|
Population
5 years and over |
2,591,858 |
100.0 |
| Population
15 years and over |
2,164,271 |
100.0 |
|
English only |
2,469,973 |
95.3 |
| Never married |
591,460 |
27.3 |
|
Language other than English |
121,885 |
4.7 |
| Now married, except separated |
1,121,721 |
51.8 |
|
Speak
English less than '"very well"' |
39,672 |
1.5 |
| Separated |
61,854 |
2.9 |
|
Spanish |
45,173 |
1.7 |
| Widowed |
176,424 |
8.2 |
|
Speak
English less than '"very well"' |
17,595 |
0.7 |
| Female |
145,804 |
6.7 |
|
Other Indo-European languages |
58,172 |
2.2 |
| Divorced |
212,812 |
9.8 |
|
Speak
English less than '"very well"' |
14,358 |
0.6 |
| Female |
120,295 |
5.6 |
|
Asian and Pacific Island languages |
10,552 |
0.4 |
| |
|
|
|
Speak
English less than '"very well"' |
4,681 |
0.2 |
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Grandparent
living in household |
|
|
|
ANCESTRY (single and multiple) |
|
|
| with
one or more own grandchildren |
|
|
|
Total
population |
2,790,781 |
100.0 |
| under
18 years |
77,936 |
100.0 |
|
Total ancestries reported |
2,261,204 |
81.0 |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren |
45,890 |
58.9 |
|
Arab |
4,464 |
0.2 |
| |
|
|
|
Czech¹ |
2,643 |
0.1 |
| VETERAN STATUS |
|
|
|
Danish |
1,801 |
0.1 |
| Civilian
population 18 years and over |
2,014,361 |
100.0 |
|
Dutch |
17,852 |
0.6 |
| Civilian veterans |
248,487 |
12.3 |
|
English |
162,111 |
5.8 |
| |
|
|
|
French (except Basque)¹ |
100,503 |
3.6 |
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN |
|
|
|
French Canadian¹ |
28,912 |
1.0 |
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION |
|
|
|
German |
119,431 |
4.3 |
| Population
5 to 20 years |
692,125 |
100.0 |
|
Greek |
2,378 |
0.1 |
| With a disability |
60,046 |
8.7 |
|
Hungarian |
1,245 |
0.0 |
| Population
21 to 64 years |
1,487,177 |
100.0 |
|
Irish¹ |
188,772 |
6.8 |
| With a disability |
355,156 |
23.9 |
|
Italian |
32,718 |
1.2 |
| Percent employed |
49.3 |
(X) |
|
Lithuanian |
521 |
0.0 |
| No disability |
1,132,021 |
76.1 |
|
Norwegian |
5,566 |
0.2 |
| Percent employed |
73.1 |
(X) |
|
Polish |
8,719 |
0.3 |
| Population
65 years and over |
333,244 |
100.0 |
|
Portuguese |
869 |
0.0 |
| With a disability |
167,148 |
50.2 |
|
Russian |
2,211 |
0.1 |
| |
|
|
|
Scotch-Irish |
48,769 |
1.7 |
| |
|
|
|
Scottish |
30,708 |
1.1 |
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 |
|
|
|
Slovak |
463 |
0.0 |
| Population 5 years and over |
2,591,858 |
100.0 |
|
Subsaharan African |
19,143 |
0.7 |
| Same house in 1995 |
1,531,753 |
59.1 |
|
Swedish |
5,779 |
0.2 |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 |
1,038,081 |
40.1 |
|
Swiss |
1,615 |
0.1 |
| Same county |
615,108 |
23.7 |
|
Ukrainian |
531 |
0.0 |
| Different county |
422,973 |
16.3 |
|
United States or American |
378,287 |
13.6 |
| Same state |
245,636 |
9.5 |
|
Welsh |
6,240 |
0.2 |
| Different state |
177,337 |
6.8 |
|
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) |
1,665 |
0.1 |
| Elsewhere in 1995 |
22,024 |
0.8 |
|
Other ancestries |
1,087,288 |
39.0 |
| |
| Date: September 6, 2005 |
| |
| -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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