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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: Morris County, New Jersey

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

122,655

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

13,044

10.6

Kindergarten

6,710

5.5

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

53,411

43.5

High school (grades 9-12)

24,198

19.7

College or graduate school

25,292

20.6

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

323,881

100.0

Less than 9th grade

11,247

3.5

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

19,247

5.9

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

77,730

24.0

Some college, no degree

54,824

16.9

Associate degree

18,063

5.6

Bachelor's degree

87,641

27.1

Graduate or professional degree

55,129

17.0

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

90.6

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

44.1

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

370,871

100.0

Never married

88,507

23.9

Now married, except separated

230,395

62.1

Separated

5,627

1.5

Widowed

22,061

5.9

Female

18,089

4.9

Divorced

24,281

6.5

Female

15,225

4.1

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

6,910

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

1,368

19.8

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

353,735

100.0

Civilian veterans

36,327

10.3

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

97,103

100.0

With a disability

6,125

6.3

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

284,431

100.0

With a disability

35,788

12.6

Percent employed

67.8

(X)

No disability

248,643

87.4

Percent employed

80.5

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

51,584

100.0

With a disability

16,962

32.9

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

437,746

100.0

Same house in 1995

267,435

61.1

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

153,324

35.0

Same county

71,653

16.4

Different county

81,671

18.7

Same state

51,684

11.8

Different state

29,987

6.9

Elsewhere in 1995

16,987

3.9

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

470,212

100.0

Native

397,574

84.6

Born in United States

391,838

83.3

State of residence

268,920

57.2

Different state

122,918

26.1

Born outside United States

5,736

1.2

Foreign born

72,638

15.4

Entered 1990 to March 2000

29,695

6.3

Naturalized citizen

36,134

7.7

Not a citizen

36,504

7.8

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

72,638

100.0

Europe

21,907

30.2

Asia

24,521

33.8

Africa

1,714

2.4

Oceania

232

0.3

Latin America

22,298

30.7

Northern America

1,966

2.7

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

437,746

100.0

English only

351,459

80.3

Language other than English

86,287

19.7

Speak English less than 'very well

33,175

7.6

Spanish

31,704

7.2

Speak English less than "very well"

15,955

3.6

Other Indo-European languages

34,478

7.9

Speak English less than "very well"

9,853

2.3

Asian and Pacific Island languages

17,266

3.9

Speak English less than "very well"

6,740

1.5

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

470,212

100.0

Total ancestries reported

582,812

123.9

Arab

3,149

0.7

Czech1

3,684

0.8

Danish

1,807

0.4

Dutch

10,819

2.3

English

40,603

8.6

French (except Basque)1

9,409

2.0

French Canadian1

2,674

0.6

German

76,871

16.3

Greek

4,367

0.9

Hungarian

7,124

1.5

Irish1

93,611

19.9

Italian

107,123

22.8

Lithuanian

2,538

0.5

Norwegian

4,955

1.1

Polish

35,103

7.5

Portuguese

2,313

0.5

Russian

13,421

2.9

Scotch-Irish

5,862

1.2

Scottish

9,771

2.1

Slovak

3,272

0.7

Subsaharan African

1,430

0.3

Swedish

5,137

1.1

Swiss

2,162

0.5

Ukrainian

5,147

1.1

United States or American

17,653

3.8

Welsh

3,334

0.7

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

2,182

0.5

Other ancestries

107,291

22.8

(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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