Irondale, AL

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:0137864, place: Irondale city, Alabama)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 2,291 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 181 (7.9%)
Kindergarten: 148 (6.46%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 975 (42.56%)
High school (grades 9-12): 569 (24.84%)
College or graduate school: 418 (18.25%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 6,680 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 300 (4.49%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 730 (10.93%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 1,562 (23.38%)
Some college, no degree: 1,700 (25.45%)
Associate degree: 428 (6.41%)
Bachelor's degree: 1,303 (19.51%)
Graduate or professional degree: 657 (9.84%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 84.6%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 29.3%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 7,783 (100%)
Never married: 1,680 (21.59%)
Now married, except separated: 4,498 (57.79%)
Separated: 103 (1.32%)
Total Widowed: 605 (7.77%)
Widowed Female: 524 (6.73%)
Total Divorced: 897 (11.53%)
Divorced Female: 502 (6.45%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 191 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 109 (57.07%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 7,349 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 1,031 (14.03%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 1,995 (100%)
--With a disability: 225 (11.28%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 5,724 (100%)
--With a disability: 1,061 (18.54%)
----Percent employed: 61.2%
--No disability: 4,663 (81.46%)
----Percent employed: 80%
Population 65 years and over: 1,281 (100%)
--With a disability: 532 (41.53%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 9,000 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 5,968 (66.31%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 2,875 (31.94%)
--Same county: 1,929 (21.43%)
--Different county: 946 (10.51%)
----Same state: 531 (5.9%)
----Different state: 415 (4.61%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 157 (1.74%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 9,624 (100%)
Native: 9,203 (95.63%)
--Born in United States: 9,136 (100%)
----State of residence: 7,036 (73.11%)
----Different state: 2,100 (21.82%)
--Born outside United States: 67 (0.7%)
Foreign born: 421 (4.37%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 255 (2.65%)
--Naturalized citizen: 122 (1.27%)
--Not a citizen: 299 (3.11%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 421 (100%)
Europe: 155 (36.82%)
Asia: 37 (8.79%)
Africa: 24 (5.7%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 196 (46.56%)
Northern America: 9 (2.14%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 9,000 (100%)
English only: 8,460 (94%)
Language other than English: 540 (6%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 246 (2.73%)
--Spanish: 284 (3.16%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 153 (1.7%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 202 (2.24%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 75 (0.83%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 30 (0.33%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 18 (0.2%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 9,624 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 8,617% (89.54%)
Arab: 19 (0.2%)
Czech: 7 (0.07%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 78 (0.81%)
English: 810 (8.42%)
French (except Basque): 67 (0.7%)
French Canadian: 8 (0.08%)
German: 754 (7.83%)
Greek: 47 (0.49%)
Hungarian: 25 (0.26%)
Irish: 768 (7.98%)
Italian: 148 (1.54%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 72 (0.75%)
Polish: 82 (0.85%)
Portuguese: 28 (0.29%)
Russian: 19 (0.2%)
Scotch-Irish: 238 (2.47%)
Scottish: 266 (2.76%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 113 (1.17%)
Swedish: 60 (0.62%)
Swiss: 9 (0.09%)
Ukrainian: 20 (0.21%)
United States or American: 1,181 (12.27%)
Welsh: 50 (0.52%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 3,748 (38.94%)

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