DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lancaster 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 | 250,291 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 76,553 | 100.0 | Native | 236,721 | 94.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,161 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 235,423 | 94.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,556 | 4.6 | State of residence | 169,504 | 67.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 25,357 | 33.1 | Different state | 65,919 | 26.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 13,630 | 17.8 | Born outside United States | 1,298 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 29,849 | 39.0 | Foreign born | 13,570 | 5.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 9,398 | 3.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,363 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 152,747 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 9,207 | 3.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,419 | 2.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,095 | 6.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 38,559 | 25.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 13,570 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 36,691 | 24.0 | Europe | 2,891 | 21.3 | |
| Associate degree | 13,240 | 8.7 | Asia | 6,763 | 49.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 33,103 | 21.7 | Africa | 641 | 4.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 16,640 | 10.9 | Oceania | 122 | 0.9 | |
| Latin America | 2,889 | 21.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.5 | (X) | Northern America | 264 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 32.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 233,685 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 201,640 | 100.0 | English only | 213,189 | 91.2 | |
| Never married | 64,676 | 32.1 | Language other than English | 20,496 | 8.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 105,705 | 52.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,317 | 4.0 | |
| Separated | 2,113 | 1.0 | Spanish | 7,679 | 3.3 | |
| Widowed | 10,076 | 5.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,043 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 8,273 | 4.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 6,048 | 2.6 | |
| Divorced | 19,070 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,322 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 10,923 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5,399 | 2.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,250 | 1.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 250,291 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,138 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 291,803 | 116.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 946 | 44.2 | Arab | 1,232 | 0.5 | |
| Czech� | 15,356 | 6.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6,348 | 2.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 190,932 | 100.0 | Dutch | 6,961 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 21,903 | 11.5 | English | 27,632 | 11.0 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 6,778 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 954 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 101,597 | 40.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 58,575 | 100.0 | Greek | 512 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,791 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 366 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 145,424 | 100.0 | Irish� | 31,378 | 12.5 | |
| With a disability | 20,163 | 13.9 | Italian | 4,290 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 67.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 216 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 125,261 | 86.1 | Norwegian | 5,911 | 2.4 | |
| Percent employed | 85.9 | (X) | Polish | 5,849 | 2.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 25,159 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 164 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 9,531 | 37.9 | Russian | 2,781 | 1.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,304 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 4,080 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 193 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 233,685 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 906 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 108,810 | 46.6 | Swedish | 12,826 | 5.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 119,303 | 51.1 | Swiss | 1,474 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 71,552 | 30.6 | Ukrainian | 892 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 47,751 | 20.4 | United States or American | 10,051 | 4.0 | |
| Same state | 26,230 | 11.2 | Welsh | 1,949 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 21,521 | 9.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 165 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5,572 | 2.4 | Other ancestries | 36,638 | 14.6 | |
| 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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