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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: Columbia city, South Carolina

NOTE: Corrected counts are available for one or more geographies displayed in this table.
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

39,063

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

1,911

4.9

Kindergarten

1,346

3.4

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

10,446

26.7

High school (grades 9-12)

5,735

14.7

College or graduate school

19,625

50.2

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

65,798

100.0

Less than 9th grade

3,495

5.3

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

8,121

12.3

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

13,349

20.3

Some college, no degree

13,421

20.4

Associate degree

3,939

6.0

Bachelor's degree

14,037

21.3

Graduate or professional degree

9,436

14.3

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

82.3

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

35.7

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

96,862

100.0

Never married

40,258

41.6

Now married, except separated

39,189

40.5

Separated

3,192

3.3

Widowed

6,249

6.5

Female

5,155

5.3

Divorced

7,974

8.2

Female

4,896

5.1

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

1,874

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

931

49.7

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

84,732

100.0

Civilian veterans

10,512

12.4

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

25,719

100.0

With a disability

2,115

8.2

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

58,881

100.0

With a disability

11,871

20.2

Percent employed

54.3

(X)

No disability

47,010

79.8

Percent employed

75.2

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

11,321

100.0

With a disability

5,666

50.0

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

109,721

100.0

Same house in 1995

44,824

40.9

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

61,222

55.8

Same county

24,652

22.5

Different county

36,570

33.3

Same state

15,881

14.5

Different state

20,689

18.9

Elsewhere in 1995

3,675

3.3

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

115,994

100.0

Native

111,211

95.9

Born in United States

109,458

94.4

State of residence

68,675

59.2

Different state

40,783

35.2

Born outside United States

1,753

1.5

Foreign born

4,783

4.1

Entered 1990 to March 2000

2,768

2.4

Naturalized citizen

1,439

1.2

Not a citizen

3,344

2.9

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

4,783

100.0

Europe

1,056

22.1

Asia

1,728

36.1

Africa

225

4.7

Oceania

37

0.8

Latin America

1,470

30.7

Northern America

267

5.6

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

109,721

100.0

English only

100,754

91.8

Language other than English

8,967

8.2

Speak English less than 'very well

3,306

3.0

Spanish

4,505

4.1

Speak English less than "very well"

1,848

1.7

Other Indo-European languages

2,745

2.5

Speak English less than "very well"

654

0.6

Asian and Pacific Island languages

1,423

1.3

Speak English less than "very well"

753

0.7

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

115,994

100.0

Total ancestries reported

104,055

89.7

Arab

449

0.4

Czech1

206

0.2

Danish

79

0.1

Dutch

694

0.6

English

8,937

7.7

French (except Basque)1

2,227

1.9

French Canadian1

315

0.3

German

9,616

8.3

Greek

421

0.4

Hungarian

98

0.1

Irish1

7,165

6.2

Italian

2,467

2.1

Lithuanian

176

0.2

Norwegian

596

0.5

Polish

1,059

0.9

Portuguese

98

0.1

Russian

362

0.3

Scotch-Irish

3,824

3.3

Scottish

2,564

2.2

Slovak

100

0.1

Subsaharan African

1,564

1.3

Swedish

409

0.4

Swiss

206

0.2

Ukrainian

78

0.1

United States or American

6,060

5.2

Welsh

431

0.4

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

512

0.4

Other ancestries

53,342

46.0

(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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