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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: Rappahannock County, Virginia

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

1,453

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

71

4.9

Kindergarten

64

4.4

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

745

51.3

High school (grades 9-12)

357

24.6

College or graduate school

216

14.9

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

5,059

100.0

Less than 9th grade

569

11.2

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

645

12.7

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

1,522

30.1

Some college, no degree

929

18.4

Associate degree

234

4.6

Bachelor's degree

726

14.4

Graduate or professional degree

434

8.6

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

76.0

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

22.9

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

5,675

100.0

Never married

952

16.8

Now married, except separated

3,616

63.7

Separated

96

1.7

Widowed

422

7.4

Female

335

5.9

Divorced

589

10.4

Female

241

4.2

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

201

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

25

12.4

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

5,408

100.0

Civilian veterans

752

13.9

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

1,388

100.0

With a disability

73

5.3

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

4,266

100.0

With a disability

679

15.9

Percent employed

55.4

(X)

No disability

3,587

84.1

Percent employed

80.6

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

964

100.0

With a disability

426

44.2

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

6,628

100.0

Same house in 1995

4,384

66.1

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

2,210

33.3

Same county

918

13.9

Different county

1,292

19.5

Same state

926

14.0

Different state

366

5.5

Elsewhere in 1995

34

0.5

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

6,983

100.0

Native

6,760

96.8

Born in United States

6,709

96.1

State of residence

4,556

65.2

Different state

2,153

30.8

Born outside United States

51

0.7

Foreign born

223

3.2

Entered 1990 to March 2000

36

0.5

Naturalized citizen

88

1.3

Not a citizen

135

1.9

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

223

100.0

Europe

150

67.3

Asia

8

3.6

Africa

6

2.7

Oceania

6

2.7

Latin America

39

17.5

Northern America

14

6.3

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

6,628

100.0

English only

6,428

97.0

Language other than English

200

3.0

Speak English less than 'very well

75

1.1

Spanish

104

1.6

Speak English less than "very well"

64

1.0

Other Indo-European languages

75

1.1

Speak English less than "very well"

0

0.0

Asian and Pacific Island languages

21

0.3

Speak English less than "very well"

11

0.2

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

6,983

100.0

Total ancestries reported

6,835

97.9

Arab

0

0.0

Czech1

23

0.3

Danish

17

0.2

Dutch

82

1.2

English

1,416

20.3

French (except Basque)1

126

1.8

French Canadian1

87

1.2

German

870

12.5

Greek

6

0.1

Hungarian

39

0.6

Irish1

915

13.1

Italian

219

3.1

Lithuanian

7

0.1

Norwegian

59

0.8

Polish

124

1.8

Portuguese

5

0.1

Russian

23

0.3

Scotch-Irish

251

3.6

Scottish

216

3.1

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

0

0.0

Swedish

46

0.7

Swiss

18

0.3

Ukrainian

15

0.2

United States or American

1,161

16.6

Welsh

41

0.6

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

0

0.0

Other ancestries

1,069

15.3

(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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