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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: Bethlehem city, Pennsylvania

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

20,642

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

1,127

5.5

Kindergarten

865

4.2

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

7,119

34.5

High school (grades 9-12)

3,183

15.4

College or graduate school

8,348

40.4

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

46,071

100.0

Less than 9th grade

3,476

7.5

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

6,470

14.0

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

15,307

33.2

Some college, no degree

7,129

15.5

Associate degree

2,712

5.9

Bachelor's degree

6,547

14.2

Graduate or professional degree

4,430

9.6

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

78.4

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

23.8

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

58,918

100.0

Never married

18,974

32.2

Now married, except separated

28,340

48.1

Separated

1,403

2.4

Widowed

5,397

9.2

Female

4,492

7.6

Divorced

4,804

8.2

Female

2,923

5.0

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

1,187

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

482

40.6

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

56,475

100.0

Civilian veterans

6,928

12.3

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

16,315

100.0

With a disability

1,453

8.9

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

38,207

100.0

With a disability

7,062

18.5

Percent employed

50.8

(X)

No disability

31,145

81.5

Percent employed

76.2

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

12,115

100.0

With a disability

4,495

37.1

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

67,520

100.0

Same house in 1995

37,237

55.1

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

27,822

41.2

Same county

12,215

18.1

Different county

15,607

23.1

Same state

8,438

12.5

Different state

7,169

10.6

Elsewhere in 1995

2,461

3.6

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

71,329

100.0

Native

66,965

93.9

Born in United States

61,713

86.5

State of residence

46,145

64.7

Different state

15,568

21.8

Born outside United States

5,252

7.4

Foreign born

4,364

6.1

Entered 1990 to March 2000

1,926

2.7

Naturalized citizen

1,821

2.6

Not a citizen

2,543

3.6

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

4,364

100.0

Europe

1,359

31.1

Asia

1,447

33.2

Africa

206

4.7

Oceania

22

0.5

Latin America

1,166

26.7

Northern America

164

3.8

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

67,520

100.0

English only

53,257

78.9

Language other than English

14,263

21.1

Speak English less than 'very well

5,418

8.0

Spanish

9,670

14.3

Speak English less than "very well"

3,940

5.8

Other Indo-European languages

3,038

4.5

Speak English less than "very well"

819

1.2

Asian and Pacific Island languages

1,047

1.6

Speak English less than "very well"

513

0.8

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

71,329

100.0

Total ancestries reported

80,126

112.3

Arab

559

0.8

Czech1

484

0.7

Danish

93

0.1

Dutch

1,878

2.6

English

3,830

5.4

French (except Basque)1

1,128

1.6

French Canadian1

194

0.3

German

15,846

22.2

Greek

625

0.9

Hungarian

2,907

4.1

Irish1

8,619

12.1

Italian

6,705

9.4

Lithuanian

256

0.4

Norwegian

306

0.4

Polish

3,260

4.6

Portuguese

658

0.9

Russian

604

0.8

Scotch-Irish

809

1.1

Scottish

782

1.1

Slovak

2,830

4.0

Subsaharan African

222

0.3

Swedish

528

0.7

Swiss

206

0.3

Ukrainian

947

1.3

United States or American

2,250

3.2

Welsh

1,411

2.0

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

99

0.1

Other ancestries

22,090

31.0

(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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