DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Carter 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 | 45,621 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,129 | 100.0 | Native | 45,010 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 786 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 44,799 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 731 | 6.6 | State of residence | 32,319 | 70.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,584 | 50.2 | Different state | 12,480 | 27.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,816 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 211 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,212 | 10.9 | Foreign born | 611 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 302 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 275 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 30,195 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 336 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,864 | 6.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,083 | 16.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 11,097 | 36.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 611 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,440 | 21.3 | Europe | 129 | 21.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,145 | 3.8 | Asia | 117 | 19.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,126 | 10.4 | Africa | 26 | 4.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,440 | 4.8 | Oceania | 7 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 281 | 46.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.0 | (X) | Northern America | 51 | 8.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 42,515 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 35,781 | 100.0 | English only | 40,727 | 95.8 | |
| Never married | 6,196 | 17.3 | Language other than English | 1,788 | 4.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,747 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 649 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 712 | 2.0 | Spanish | 1,097 | 2.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,825 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 417 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 2,377 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 340 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 4,301 | 12.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 76 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 2,473 | 6.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 40 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 45,621 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,086 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 36,207 | 79.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 660 | 60.8 | Arab | 46 | 0.1 | |
| Czech� | 72 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 117 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 33,631 | 100.0 | Dutch | 962 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,164 | 15.4 | English | 3,505 | 7.7 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 822 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 111 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,947 | 8.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,328 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,121 | 10.9 | Hungarian | 19 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 24,376 | 100.0 | Irish� | 4,477 | 9.8 | |
| With a disability | 6,099 | 25.0 | Italian | 502 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 50.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 18,277 | 75.0 | Norwegian | 199 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 77.0 | (X) | Polish | 152 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,770 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 37 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,051 | 45.1 | Russian | 44 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 666 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 453 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 42,515 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 102 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 23,501 | 55.3 | Swedish | 142 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 18,781 | 44.2 | Swiss | 85 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 11,762 | 27.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 7,019 | 16.5 | United States or American | 6,533 | 14.3 | |
| Same state | 3,765 | 8.9 | Welsh | 139 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 3,254 | 7.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 369 | 0.8 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 233 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 12,701 | 27.8 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| � 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
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