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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: Lancaster County, South Carolina

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

14,891

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

917

6.2

Kindergarten

952

6.4

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

7,537

50.6

High school (grades 9-12)

3,549

23.8

College or graduate school

1,936

13.0

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

40,520

100.0

Less than 9th grade

4,232

10.4

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

7,997

19.7

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

14,447

35.7

Some college, no degree

7,058

17.4

Associate degree

2,657

6.6

Bachelor's degree

2,742

6.8

Graduate or professional degree

1,387

3.4

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

69.8

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

10.2

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

48,151

100.0

Never married

11,476

23.8

Now married, except separated

27,031

56.1

Separated

1,592

3.3

Widowed

3,869

8.0

Female

3,156

6.6

Divorced

4,183

8.7

Female

2,327

4.8

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

1,701

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

845

49.7

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

45,769

100.0

Civilian veterans

5,982

13.1

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

13,975

100.0

With a disability

1,176

8.4

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

34,310

100.0

With a disability

8,173

23.8

Percent employed

54.7

(X)

No disability

26,137

76.2

Percent employed

79.9

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

7,326

100.0

With a disability

3,503

47.8

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

57,411

100.0

Same house in 1995

35,985

62.7

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

20,831

36.3

Same county

13,084

22.8

Different county

7,747

13.5

Same state

3,533

6.2

Different state

4,214

7.3

Elsewhere in 1995

595

1.0

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

61,351

100.0

Native

60,524

98.7

Born in United States

60,276

98.2

State of residence

44,817

73.1

Different state

15,459

25.2

Born outside United States

248

0.4

Foreign born

827

1.3

Entered 1990 to March 2000

503

0.8

Naturalized citizen

239

0.4

Not a citizen

588

1.0

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

827

100.0

Europe

135

16.3

Asia

139

16.8

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

542

65.5

Northern America

11

1.3

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

57,411

100.0

English only

55,399

96.5

Language other than English

2,012

3.5

Speak English less than 'very well

821

1.4

Spanish

1,325

2.3

Speak English less than "very well"

614

1.1

Other Indo-European languages

506

0.9

Speak English less than "very well"

124

0.2

Asian and Pacific Island languages

121

0.2

Speak English less than "very well"

75

0.1

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

61,351

100.0

Total ancestries reported

47,623

77.6

Arab

39

0.1

Czech1

56

0.1

Danish

38

0.1

Dutch

228

0.4

English

3,082

5.0

French (except Basque)1

398

0.6

French Canadian1

79

0.1

German

2,789

4.5

Greek

15

0.0

Hungarian

25

0.0

Irish1

3,705

6.0

Italian

679

1.1

Lithuanian

8

0.0

Norwegian

88

0.1

Polish

182

0.3

Portuguese

15

0.0

Russian

30

0.0

Scotch-Irish

3,045

5.0

Scottish

798

1.3

Slovak

32

0.1

Subsaharan African

730

1.2

Swedish

86

0.1

Swiss

10

0.0

Ukrainian

5

0.0

United States or American

14,016

22.8

Welsh

155

0.3

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

30

0.0

Other ancestries

17,260

28.1

(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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