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DP-2. Social Characteristics: 1990
Data Set: 1990 Summary Tape File 3 (STF 3) - Sample data
Geographic Area: Rowan County, Kentucky

NOTE: For information on confidentiality, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expstf390.htm.


Subject


Number

 

 

URBAN AND RURAL RESIDENCE

 

Total population

20,353

Urban population

8,358

Rural population

11,995

Farm population

761

 

 

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

Persons 3 years and over enrolled in school

8,195

Preprimary school

216

Elementary or high school

2,814

Percent in private school

1.5

College

5,165

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

Persons 25 years and over

10,476

Less than 9th grade

2,869

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

1,542

High school graduate

2,391

Some college, no degree

1,577

Associate degree

288

Bachelor's degree

831

Graduate or professional degree

978

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

57.9

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

17.3

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1985

 

Persons 5 years and over

19,198

Lived in same house

8,428

Lived in different house in U.S.

10,699

Same state

8,325

Same county

4,257

Different county

4,068

Different state

2,374

Lived abroad

71

 

 

DISABILITY OF CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS

 

Persons 16 to 64 years

14,536

With a mobility or self-care limitation

598

With a mobility limitation

375

With a self-care limitation

374

With a work disability

1,575

In labor force

463

Prevented from working

940

 

 

Persons 65 years and over

1,931

With a mobility or self-care limitation

435

With a mobility limitation

391

With a self-care limitation

225

 

 

CHILDREN EVER BORN PER 1,000 WOMEN

 

Women 15 to 24 years

84

Women 25 to 34 years

1,528

Women 35 to 44 years

2,100

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

Civilian veterans 16 years and over

1,663

65 years and over

410

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

Total population

20,353

Native population

20,200

Percent born in state of residence

75.8

Foreign-born population

153

Entered the U.S. 1980 to 1990

110

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

Persons 5 years and over

19,198

Speak a language other than English

448

Do not speak English "very well"

159

Speak Spanish

135

Do not speak English "very well"

41

Speak Asian or Pacific Island language

67

Do not speak English "very well"

34

 

 

ANCESTRY

 

Total ancestries reported

19,567

Arab

9

Austrian

31

Belgian

0

Canadian

21

Czech

29

Danish

7

Dutch

295

English

3,401

Finnish

0

French (except Basque)

475

French Canadian

83

German

4,338

Greek

16

Hungarian

28

Irish

3,646

Italian

236

Lithuanian

0

Norwegian

52

Polish

135

Portuguese

6

Romanian

11

Russian

19

Scotch-Irish

486

Scottish

560

Slovak

28

Subsaharan African

10

Swedish

101

Swiss

5

Ukrainian

0

United States or American

3,100

Welsh

228

West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)

0

Yugoslavian

16

Other ancestries

2,195

(X) Not applicable
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1990 Census of Population and Housing, Summary Tape File 3 (Sample Data)
             Matrices P1, P6, P13, P28, P33, P34, P36, P38, P39, P42, P43, P54, P58, P64, P66, P69.