Hendersonville, TN

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4733280, place: Hendersonville city, Tennessee)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 10,212 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 659 (6.45%)
Kindergarten: 616 (6.03%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 4,671 (45.74%)
High school (grades 9-12): 2,619 (25.65%)
College or graduate school: 1,647 (16.13%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 26,891 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 809 (3.01%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 2,087 (7.76%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 7,465 (27.76%)
Some college, no degree: 7,400 (27.52%)
Associate degree: 2,028 (7.54%)
Bachelor's degree: 5,240 (19.49%)
Graduate or professional degree: 1,862 (6.92%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 89.2%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 26.4%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 31,981 (100%)
Never married: 6,722 (21.02%)
Now married, except separated: 19,652 (61.45%)
Separated: 472 (1.48%)
Total Widowed: 1,717 (5.37%)
Widowed Female: 1,414 (4.42%)
Total Divorced: 3,418 (10.69%)
Divorced Female: 2,196 (6.87%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 658 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 256 (38.91%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 30,062 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 4,164 (13.85%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 9,391 (100%)
--With a disability: 655 (6.97%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 24,365 (100%)
--With a disability: 3,758 (15.42%)
----Percent employed: 68.8%
--No disability: 20,607 (84.58%)
----Percent employed: 81.5%
Population 65 years and over: 3,880 (100%)
--With a disability: 1,630 (42.01%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 37,887 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 17,740 (46.82%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 19,831 (52.34%)
--Same county: 7,623 (20.12%)
--Different county: 12,208 (32.22%)
----Same state: 6,133 (16.19%)
----Different state: 6,075 (16.03%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 316 (0.83%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 40,537 (100%)
Native: 39,379 (97.14%)
--Born in United States: 39,111 (100%)
----State of residence: 20,835 (51.4%)
----Different state: 18,276 (45.08%)
--Born outside United States: 268 (0.66%)
Foreign born: 1,158 (2.86%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 489 (1.21%)
--Naturalized citizen: 572 (1.41%)
--Not a citizen: 586 (1.45%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 1,158 (100%)
Europe: 359 (31%)
Asia: 390 (33.68%)
Africa: 26 (2.25%)
Oceania: 8 (0.69%)
Latin America: 337 (29.1%)
Northern America: 38 (3.28%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 37,887 (100%)
English only: 36,155 (95.43%)
Language other than English: 1,732 (4.57%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 683 (1.8%)
--Spanish: 932 (2.46%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 458 (1.21%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 471 (1.24%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 133 (0.35%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 282 (0.74%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 92 (0.24%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 40,537 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 38,324% (94.54%)
Arab: 79 (0.19%)
Czech: 160 (0.39%)
Danish: 65 (0.16%)
Dutch: 717 (1.77%)
English: 5,244 (12.94%)
French (except Basque): 1,091 (2.69%)
French Canadian: 311 (0.77%)
German: 5,721 (14.11%)
Greek: 146 (0.36%)
Hungarian: 118 (0.29%)
Irish: 5,858 (14.45%)
Italian: 1,314 (3.24%)
Lithuanian: 39 (0.1%)
Norwegian: 365 (0.9%)
Polish: 623 (1.54%)
Portuguese: 65 (0.16%)
Russian: 104 (0.26%)
Scotch-Irish: 1,378 (3.4%)
Scottish: 1,175 (2.9%)
Slovak: 88 (0.22%)
Subsaharan African: 52 (0.13%)
Swedish: 369 (0.91%)
Swiss: 26 (0.06%)
Ukrainian: 45 (0.11%)
United States or American: 6,277 (15.48%)
Welsh: 266 (0.66%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 17 (0.04%)
Other ancestries: 6,611 (16.31%)

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