DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: State Senate District 1 001
[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 53,046 100.0
      enrolled in school 13,409 100.0   Native 51,880 97.8
Nursery school, preschool 876 6.5       Born in United States 51,539 97.2
Kindergarten 1,024 7.6           State of residence 15,501 29.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 6,794 50.7           Different state 36,038 67.9
High school (grades 9-12) 2,825 21.1       Born outside United States 341 0.6
College or graduate school 1,890 14.1   Foreign born 1,166 2.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 791 1.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 299 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 33,770 100.0       Not a citizen 867 1.6
Less than 9th grade 2,190 6.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 4,947 14.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 11,605 34.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,166 100.0
Some college, no degree 9,001 26.7   Europe 159 13.6
Associate degree 2,212 6.6   Asia 248 21.3
Bachelor's degree 2,697 8.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 1,118 3.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 720 61.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 78.9 (X)   Northern America 39 3.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 49,044 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 40,530 100.0   English only 47,363 96.6
Never married 8,507 21.0   Language other than English 1,681 3.4
Now married, except separated 24,507 60.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 901 1.8
Separated 826 2.0   Spanish 1,125 2.3
Widowed 2,280 5.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 688 1.4
 Female 1,876 4.6   Other Indo-European languages 318 0.6
Divorced 4,410 10.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 118 0.2
 Female 2,337 5.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 223 0.5
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 88 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 53,046 100.0
           under 18 years 1,260 100.0     Total ancestries reported 44,900 84.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 650 51.6   Arab 50 0.1
        Czech¹ 92 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 39 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 38,232 100.0   Dutch 832 1.6
Civilian veterans 5,140 13.4   English 4,238 8.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,157 2.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 139 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 4,147 7.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 12,738 100.0   Greek 37 0.1
With a disability 831 6.5   Hungarian 38 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 31,354 100.0   Irish¹ 6,494 12.2
With a disability 5,883 18.8   Italian 1,333 2.5
 Percent employed 56.9 (X)   Lithuanian 14 0.0
No disability 25,471 81.2   Norwegian 260 0.5
 Percent employed 81.0 (X)   Polish 281 0.5
     Population 65 years and over 4,561 100.0   Portuguese 36 0.1
With a disability 2,182 47.8   Russian 16 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 1,078 2.0
        Scottish 895 1.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 13 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 49,044 100.0   Subsaharan African 325 0.6
Same house in 1995 24,751 50.5   Swedish 354 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 23,747 48.4   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 10,680 21.8   Ukrainian 10 0.0
 Different county 13,067 26.6   United States or American 9,775 18.4
  Same state 3,220 6.6   Welsh 127 0.2
  Different state 9,847 20.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 13 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 546 1.1   Other ancestries 13,107 24.7
 
Date: April 5, 2007
 
-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.