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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: Richmond County, Georgia

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

56,607

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

3,843

6.8

Kindergarten

3,077

5.4

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

25,219

44.6

High school (grades 9-12)

12,838

22.7

College or graduate school

11,630

20.5

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

122,592

100.0

Less than 9th grade

9,144

7.5

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

17,867

14.6

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

36,323

29.6

Some college, no degree

28,392

23.2

Associate degree

7,957

6.5

Bachelor's degree

14,767

12.0

Graduate or professional degree

8,142

6.6

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

78.0

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

18.7

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

155,058

100.0

Never married

48,993

31.6

Now married, except separated

71,391

46.0

Separated

4,977

3.2

Widowed

10,910

7.0

Female

8,853

5.7

Divorced

18,787

12.1

Female

11,356

7.3

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

6,094

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

3,312

54.3

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

138,375

100.0

Civilian veterans

24,745

17.9

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

47,207

100.0

With a disability

4,562

9.7

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

105,909

100.0

With a disability

27,104

25.6

Percent employed

50.9

(X)

No disability

78,805

74.4

Percent employed

72.6

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

21,309

100.0

With a disability

10,968

51.5

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

185,414

100.0

Same house in 1995

93,957

50.7

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

87,147

47.0

Same county

47,962

25.9

Different county

39,185

21.1

Same state

14,214

7.7

Different state

24,971

13.5

Elsewhere in 1995

4,310

2.3

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

199,775

100.0

Native

192,984

96.6

Born in United States

187,409

93.8

State of residence

119,990

60.1

Different state

67,419

33.7

Born outside United States

5,575

2.8

Foreign born

6,791

3.4

Entered 1990 to March 2000

2,024

1.0

Naturalized citizen

4,024

2.0

Not a citizen

2,767

1.4

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

6,791

100.0

Europe

2,062

30.4

Asia

2,391

35.2

Africa

259

3.8

Oceania

79

1.2

Latin America

1,744

25.7

Northern America

256

3.8

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

185,414

100.0

English only

173,207

93.4

Language other than English

12,207

6.6

Speak English less than 'very well

3,912

2.1

Spanish

5,566

3.0

Speak English less than "very well"

1,840

1.0

Other Indo-European languages

4,027

2.2

Speak English less than "very well"

982

0.5

Asian and Pacific Island languages

2,136

1.2

Speak English less than "very well"

978

0.5

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

199,775

100.0

Total ancestries reported

170,980

85.6

Arab

260

0.1

Czech1

244

0.1

Danish

272

0.1

Dutch

917

0.5

English

11,735

5.9

French (except Basque)1

2,457

1.2

French Canadian1

695

0.3

German

11,480

5.7

Greek

286

0.1

Hungarian

317

0.2

Irish1

11,685

5.8

Italian

2,742

1.4

Lithuanian

73

0.0

Norwegian

731

0.4

Polish

1,279

0.6

Portuguese

265

0.1

Russian

265

0.1

Scotch-Irish

2,425

1.2

Scottish

2,789

1.4

Slovak

35

0.0

Subsaharan African

2,420

1.2

Swedish

634

0.3

Swiss

92

0.0

Ukrainian

177

0.1

United States or American

18,571

9.3

Welsh

651

0.3

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

776

0.4

Other ancestries

96,707

48.4

(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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