DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lunenburg 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 | 13,146 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,602 | 100.0 | Native | 12,983 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 161 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 12,883 | 98.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 153 | 5.9 | State of residence | 10,023 | 76.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,342 | 51.6 | Different state | 2,860 | 21.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 665 | 25.6 | Born outside United States | 100 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 281 | 10.8 | Foreign born | 163 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 102 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 42 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,305 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 121 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,370 | 14.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,038 | 21.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,942 | 31.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 163 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,783 | 19.2 | Europe | 51 | 31.3 | |
| Associate degree | 319 | 3.4 | Asia | 10 | 6.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 593 | 6.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 260 | 2.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 87 | 53.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.4 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 9.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,489 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,813 | 100.0 | English only | 12,089 | 96.8 | |
| Never married | 2,832 | 26.2 | Language other than English | 400 | 3.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,627 | 52.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 139 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 396 | 3.7 | Spanish | 281 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,060 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 128 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 870 | 8.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 108 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 898 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 487 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,146 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 400 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,419 | 71.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 180 | 45.0 | Arab | 74 | 0.6 | |
| Czech� | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,323 | 100.0 | Dutch | 116 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,632 | 15.8 | English | 1,055 | 8.0 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 146 | 1.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 11 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 598 | 4.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,510 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 341 | 13.6 | Hungarian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,557 | 100.0 | Irish� | 541 | 4.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,783 | 27.2 | Italian | 165 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 50.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 27 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 4,774 | 72.8 | Norwegian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 76.5 | (X) | Polish | 69 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,224 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,017 | 45.7 | Russian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 166 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 82 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,489 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 69 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,570 | 68.6 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,798 | 30.4 | Swiss | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,681 | 13.5 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,117 | 17.0 | United States or American | 1,923 | 14.6 | |
| Same state | 1,205 | 9.6 | Welsh | 57 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 912 | 7.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 121 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 4,258 | 32.4 | |
| 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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