DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Somerset 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 | 297,490 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 76,743 | 100.0 | Native | 243,553 | 81.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 8,096 | 10.5 | Born in United States | 240,283 | 80.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,254 | 5.5 | State of residence | 158,111 | 53.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 35,314 | 46.0 | Different state | 82,172 | 27.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 14,452 | 18.8 | Born outside United States | 3,270 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 14,627 | 19.1 | Foreign born | 53,937 | 18.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 22,954 | 7.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 25,253 | 8.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 204,343 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 28,684 | 9.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 8,684 | 4.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 12,628 | 6.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 43,972 | 21.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 53,937 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 32,394 | 15.9 | Europe | 13,606 | 25.2 | |
| Associate degree | 11,621 | 5.7 | Asia | 19,117 | 35.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 55,991 | 27.4 | Africa | 2,742 | 5.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 39,053 | 19.1 | Oceania | 90 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 17,520 | 32.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 89.6 | (X) | Northern America | 862 | 1.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 46.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 275,485 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 231,797 | 100.0 | English only | 212,271 | 77.1 | |
| Never married | 55,458 | 23.9 | Language other than English | 63,214 | 22.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 142,947 | 61.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24,705 | 9.0 | |
| Separated | 3,113 | 1.3 | Spanish | 22,593 | 8.2 | |
| Widowed | 13,716 | 5.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12,347 | 4.5 | |
| Female | 11,265 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 23,969 | 8.7 | |
| Divorced | 16,563 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,820 | 2.5 | |
| Female | 10,070 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 12,920 | 4.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,422 | 1.6 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 297,490 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4,965 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 358,683 | 120.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,292 | 26.0 | Arab | 2,684 | 0.9 | |
| Czech� | 2,787 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,167 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 221,476 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4,713 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 21,163 | 9.6 | English | 20,979 | 7.1 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 5,289 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 1,686 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 43,118 | 14.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 60,880 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,406 | 0.8 | |
| With a disability | 3,368 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 6,680 | 2.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 180,421 | 100.0 | Irish� | 46,508 | 15.6 | |
| With a disability | 20,464 | 11.3 | Italian | 55,612 | 18.7 | |
| Percent employed | 66.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,790 | 0.6 | |
| No disability | 159,957 | 88.7 | Norwegian | 2,772 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 80.9 | (X) | Polish | 28,565 | 9.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 30,927 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2,024 | 0.7 | |
| With a disability | 10,600 | 34.3 | Russian | 9,155 | 3.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,795 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,300 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 3,057 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 275,485 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3,095 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 152,788 | 55.5 | Swedish | 2,820 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 110,390 | 40.1 | Swiss | 1,126 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 42,384 | 15.4 | Ukrainian | 4,176 | 1.4 | |
| Different county | 68,006 | 24.7 | United States or American | 9,425 | 3.2 | |
| Same state | 45,449 | 16.5 | Welsh | 1,661 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 22,557 | 8.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3,083 | 1.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 12,307 | 4.5 | Other ancestries | 84,210 | 28.3 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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