Greenville, SC

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4530850, place: Greenville city, South Carolina)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 14,602 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 772 (5.29%)
Kindergarten: 694 (4.75%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 5,288 (36.21%)
High school (grades 9-12): 2,631 (18.02%)
College or graduate school: 5,217 (35.73%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 37,171 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 2,804 (7.54%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 4,985 (13.41%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 7,603 (20.45%)
Some college, no degree: 6,941 (18.67%)
Associate degree: 2,128 (5.72%)
Bachelor's degree: 8,216 (22.1%)
Graduate or professional degree: 4,494 (12.09%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 79%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 34.2%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 46,813 (100%)
Never married: 16,580 (35.42%)
Now married, except separated: 19,212 (41.04%)
Separated: 2,071 (4.42%)
Total Widowed: 3,981 (8.5%)
Widowed Female: 3,257 (6.96%)
Total Divorced: 4,969 (10.61%)
Divorced Female: 2,898 (6.19%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 1,139 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 762 (66.9%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 45,036 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 4,668 (10.37%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 11,469 (100%)
--With a disability: 1,212 (10.57%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 32,842 (100%)
--With a disability: 5,821 (17.72%)
----Percent employed: 56.2%
--No disability: 27,021 (82.28%)
----Percent employed: 78.5%
Population 65 years and over: 7,801 (100%)
--With a disability: 3,492 (44.76%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 53,204 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 24,906 (46.81%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 26,793 (50.36%)
--Same county: 14,816 (27.85%)
--Different county: 11,977 (22.51%)
----Same state: 4,401 (8.27%)
----Different state: 7,576 (14.24%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 1,505 (2.83%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 56,334 (100%)
Native: 53,915 (95.71%)
--Born in United States: 53,452 (100%)
----State of residence: 34,801 (61.78%)
----Different state: 18,651 (33.11%)
--Born outside United States: 463 (0.82%)
Foreign born: 2,419 (4.29%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 1,610 (2.86%)
--Naturalized citizen: 543 (0.96%)
--Not a citizen: 1,876 (3.33%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 2,419 (100%)
Europe: 487 (20.13%)
Asia: 526 (21.74%)
Africa: 134 (5.54%)
Oceania: 26 (1.07%)
Latin America: 1,091 (45.1%)
Northern America: 155 (6.41%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 53,204 (100%)
English only: 49,524 (93.08%)
Language other than English: 3,680 (6.92%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 1,546 (2.91%)
--Spanish: 1,938 (3.64%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 924 (1.74%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 1,188 (2.23%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 358 (0.67%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 446 (0.84%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 264 (0.5%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 56,334 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 50,009% (88.77%)
Arab: 189 (0.34%)
Czech: 102 (0.18%)
Danish: 108 (0.19%)
Dutch: 681 (1.21%)
English: 6,018 (10.68%)
French (except Basque): 1,006 (1.79%)
French Canadian: 248 (0.44%)
German: 5,018 (8.91%)
Greek: 290 (0.51%)
Hungarian: 84 (0.15%)
Irish: 3,889 (6.9%)
Italian: 999 (1.77%)
Lithuanian: 34 (0.06%)
Norwegian: 281 (0.5%)
Polish: 431 (0.77%)
Portuguese: 23 (0.04%)
Russian: 122 (0.22%)
Scotch-Irish: 2,540 (4.51%)
Scottish: 1,712 (3.04%)
Slovak: 13 (0.02%)
Subsaharan African: 785 (1.39%)
Swedish: 258 (0.46%)
Swiss: 116 (0.21%)
Ukrainian: 34 (0.06%)
United States or American: 4,870 (8.64%)
Welsh: 331 (0.59%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 80 (0.14%)
Other ancestries: 19,747 (35.05%)

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