DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Westmoreland 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 | 16,718 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,622 | 100.0 | Native | 16,206 | 96.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 175 | 4.8 | Born in United States | 16,156 | 96.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 233 | 6.4 | State of residence | 10,945 | 65.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,808 | 49.9 | Different state | 5,211 | 31.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 978 | 27.0 | Born outside United States | 50 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 428 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 512 | 3.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 168 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 304 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,808 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 208 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,641 | 13.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,982 | 16.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,948 | 33.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 512 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,346 | 19.9 | Europe | 97 | 18.9 | |
| Associate degree | 319 | 2.7 | Asia | 68 | 13.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 975 | 8.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 597 | 5.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 309 | 60.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.3 | (X) | Northern America | 38 | 7.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,852 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,549 | 100.0 | English only | 15,061 | 95.0 | |
| Never married | 2,961 | 21.9 | Language other than English | 791 | 5.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,529 | 55.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 338 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 528 | 3.9 | Spanish | 588 | 3.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,324 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 283 | 1.8 | |
| Female | 1,118 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 147 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,207 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 537 | 4.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 56 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,718 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 515 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 14,942 | 89.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 238 | 46.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech� | 13 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 40 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,830 | 100.0 | Dutch | 166 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,094 | 16.3 | English | 2,196 | 13.1 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 240 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 102 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,656 | 9.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,434 | 100.0 | Greek | 24 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 259 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,149 | 100.0 | Irish� | 1,623 | 9.7 | |
| With a disability | 2,120 | 23.2 | Italian | 373 | 2.2 | |
| Percent employed | 52.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 33 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 7,029 | 76.8 | Norwegian | 47 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 73.8 | (X) | Polish | 253 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,156 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 14 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,426 | 45.2 | Russian | 35 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 194 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 228 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 10 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,852 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,781 | 68.0 | Swedish | 61 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,997 | 31.5 | Swiss | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,271 | 14.3 | Ukrainian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,726 | 17.2 | United States or American | 1,973 | 11.8 | |
| Same state | 1,522 | 9.6 | Welsh | 179 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 1,204 | 7.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 74 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 5,406 | 32.3 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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