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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: Aiken city, 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

6,554

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

518

7.9

Kindergarten

263

4.0

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

2,727

41.6

High school (grades 9-12)

1,298

19.8

College or graduate school

1,748

26.7

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

17,161

100.0

Less than 9th grade

974

5.7

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

1,672

9.7

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

3,711

21.6

Some college, no degree

3,132

18.3

Associate degree

1,127

6.6

Bachelor's degree

4,081

23.8

Graduate or professional degree

2,464

14.4

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

84.6

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

38.1

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

20,558

100.0

Never married

5,117

24.9

Now married, except separated

10,999

53.5

Separated

814

4.0

Widowed

1,903

9.3

Female

1,637

8.0

Divorced

1,725

8.4

Female

1,062

5.2

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

450

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

229

50.9

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

19,530

100.0

Civilian veterans

3,122

16.0

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

5,324

100.0

With a disability

494

9.3

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

13,643

100.0

With a disability

2,510

18.4

Percent employed

52.8

(X)

No disability

11,133

81.6

Percent employed

76.6

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

4,102

100.0

With a disability

1,552

37.8

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

23,723

100.0

Same house in 1995

12,836

54.1

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

10,579

44.6

Same county

5,718

24.1

Different county

4,861

20.5

Same state

1,233

5.2

Different state

3,628

15.3

Elsewhere in 1995

308

1.3

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

25,340

100.0

Native

24,692

97.4

Born in United States

24,419

96.4

State of residence

10,690

42.2

Different state

13,729

54.2

Born outside United States

273

1.1

Foreign born

648

2.6

Entered 1990 to March 2000

324

1.3

Naturalized citizen

272

1.1

Not a citizen

376

1.5

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

648

100.0

Europe

177

27.3

Asia

228

35.2

Africa

23

3.5

Oceania

10

1.5

Latin America

165

25.5

Northern America

45

6.9

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

23,723

100.0

English only

22,493

94.8

Language other than English

1,230

5.2

Speak English less than 'very well

395

1.7

Spanish

490

2.1

Speak English less than "very well"

160

0.7

Other Indo-European languages

487

2.1

Speak English less than "very well"

131

0.6

Asian and Pacific Island languages

200

0.8

Speak English less than "very well"

90

0.4

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

25,340

100.0

Total ancestries reported

24,712

97.5

Arab

68

0.3

Czech1

73

0.3

Danish

31

0.1

Dutch

249

1.0

English

3,493

13.8

French (except Basque)1

581

2.3

French Canadian1

42

0.2

German

2,985

11.8

Greek

41

0.2

Hungarian

108

0.4

Irish1

2,562

10.1

Italian

861

3.4

Lithuanian

44

0.2

Norwegian

101

0.4

Polish

322

1.3

Portuguese

45

0.2

Russian

81

0.3

Scotch-Irish

951

3.8

Scottish

611

2.4

Slovak

56

0.2

Subsaharan African

536

2.1

Swedish

154

0.6

Swiss

58

0.2

Ukrainian

7

0.0

United States or American

2,185

8.6

Welsh

157

0.6

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

65

0.3

Other ancestries

8,245

32.5

(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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