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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: Lowndes County, Georgia

NOTE: Corrected counts are available for one or more geographies displayed in this table.
NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Subject

Number

Percent

 

 

 

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

 

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school

30,067

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

2,156

7.2

Kindergarten

1,315

4.4

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

11,543

38.4

High school (grades 9-12)

5,587

18.6

College or graduate school

9,466

31.5

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

54,237

100.0

Less than 9th grade

3,564

6.6

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

8,555

15.8

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

16,587

30.6

Some college, no degree

11,642

21.5

Associate degree

3,224

5.9

Bachelor's degree

6,768

12.5

Graduate or professional degree

3,897

7.2

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

77.7

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

19.7

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

71,788

100.0

Never married

21,482

29.9

Now married, except separated

36,775

51.2

Separated

1,931

2.7

Widowed

4,361

6.1

Female

3,522

4.9

Divorced

7,239

10.1

Female

4,143

5.8

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years

2,178

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

1,054

48.4

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

65,225

100.0

Civilian veterans

11,883

18.2

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

22,761

100.0

With a disability

1,820

8.0

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

47,497

100.0

With a disability

10,043

21.1

Percent employed

55.1

(X)

No disability

37,454

78.9

Percent employed

76.3

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

7,966

100.0

With a disability

3,996

50.2

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

85,728

100.0

Same house in 1995

39,155

45.7

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

44,299

51.7

Same county

21,513

25.1

Different county

22,786

26.6

Same state

9,056

10.6

Different state

13,730

16.0

Elsewhere in 1995

2,274

2.7

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

92,115

100.0

Native

89,654

97.3

Born in United States

88,067

95.6

State of residence

55,868

60.7

Different state

32,199

35.0

Born outside United States

1,587

1.7

Foreign born

2,461

2.7

Entered 1990 to March 2000

1,017

1.1

Naturalized citizen

1,069

1.2

Not a citizen

1,392

1.5

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

2,461

100.0

Europe

467

19.0

Asia

579

23.5

Africa

61

2.5

Oceania

4

0.2

Latin America

1,278

51.9

Northern America

72

2.9

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

85,728

100.0

English only

81,522

95.1

Language other than English

4,206

4.9

Speak English less than 'very well

1,497

1.7

Spanish

2,702

3.2

Speak English less than "very well"

1,026

1.2

Other Indo-European languages

881

1.0

Speak English less than "very well"

172

0.2

Asian and Pacific Island languages

592

0.7

Speak English less than "very well"

299

0.3

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

92,115

100.0

Total ancestries reported

80,223

87.1

Arab

173

0.2

Czech1

123

0.1

Danish

124

0.1

Dutch

841

0.9

English

7,413

8.0

French (except Basque)1

1,505

1.6

French Canadian1

284

0.3

German

6,643

7.2

Greek

230

0.2

Hungarian

146

0.2

Irish1

6,581

7.1

Italian

1,763

1.9

Lithuanian

15

0.0

Norwegian

335

0.4

Polish

865

0.9

Portuguese

91

0.1

Russian

157

0.2

Scotch-Irish

1,874

2.0

Scottish

1,533

1.7

Slovak

47

0.1

Subsaharan African

1,012

1.1

Swedish

402

0.4

Swiss

88

0.1

Ukrainian

110

0.1

United States or American

10,628

11.5

Welsh

299

0.3

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

232

0.3

Other ancestries

36,709

39.9

(X) Not applicable.
1 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.
Ancestry Code List (PDF 35KB)
Place of Birth Code List (PDF 74KB)
Language Code List (PDF 17KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P18, P19, P21, P22, P24, P36, P37, P39, P42, PCT8, PCT16, PCT17, and PCT19



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