DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Letcher 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 | 25,277 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,801 | 100.0 | Native | 25,185 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 287 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 25,160 | 99.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 335 | 5.8 | State of residence | 21,214 | 83.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,747 | 47.4 | Different state | 3,946 | 15.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,574 | 27.1 | Born outside United States | 25 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 858 | 14.8 | Foreign born | 92 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 12 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 52 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,930 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 40 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,840 | 22.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,189 | 18.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,575 | 32.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 92 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,245 | 13.3 | Europe | 16 | 17.4 | |
| Associate degree | 784 | 4.6 | Asia | 49 | 53.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 720 | 4.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 577 | 3.4 | Oceania | 2 | 2.2 | |
| Latin America | 15 | 16.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 58.5 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 10.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,868 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,479 | 100.0 | English only | 23,454 | 98.3 | |
| Never married | 3,879 | 18.9 | Language other than English | 414 | 1.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,542 | 61.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 168 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 487 | 2.4 | Spanish | 159 | 0.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,739 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 79 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,435 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 201 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,832 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 73 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 958 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 49 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 25,277 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 418 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,754 | 62.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 239 | 57.2 | Arab | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Czech� | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,258 | 100.0 | Dutch | 184 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,759 | 9.1 | English | 1,626 | 6.4 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 119 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 819 | 3.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,654 | 100.0 | Greek | 6 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 654 | 11.6 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,948 | 100.0 | Irish� | 1,283 | 5.1 | |
| With a disability | 5,635 | 37.7 | Italian | 123 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 27.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,313 | 62.3 | Norwegian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 61.1 | (X) | Polish | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,038 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,901 | 62.6 | Russian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 202 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 205 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,868 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 17,329 | 72.6 | Swedish | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,483 | 27.2 | Swiss | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 4,536 | 19.0 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,947 | 8.2 | United States or American | 9,037 | 35.8 | |
| Same state | 957 | 4.0 | Welsh | 37 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 990 | 4.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 56 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 2,006 | 7.9 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Communication System (ECS), Division of Health Communication and Marketing (DHCM), National Center for Health Marketing (NCHM)
