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TABLE 2. SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS
  2003
Estimate		 2002
Estimate		 2001
Estimate		 2000
Estimate
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school
118,562
113,622 *
114,047 *
120,817
Nursery school, preschool
6.89%
6.01%
6.42%
7.13%
Kindergarten
5.71%
4.75%
5.58%
5.41%
Elementary school (grades 1-8)
44.16%
47.42% *
44.70%
44.65%
High school grade (grades 9-12)
22.44%
21.58%
22.73%
22.96%
College or graduate school
20.80%
20.24%
20.57%
19.85%
 
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over
292,381
292,340
292,553
288,324 *
Less than 9th grade
6.94%
6.32%
6.63%
6.71%
9th to 12th grade, no diploma
10.64%
12.65% *
12.99% *
12.26% *
High school graduate (including equivalency)
32.98%
35.14% *
33.31%
33.85%
Some college, no degree
18.53%
15.95% *
17.48%
17.28%
Associate degree
8.42%
8.39%
8.26%
7.15% *
Bachelor's degree
13.67%
13.95%
13.32%
14.18%
Graduate or professional degree
8.81%
7.60% *
8.01%
8.58%
 
Percent high school graduate or higher
82.4
81.0
80.4 *
81.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher
22.5
21.6
21.3
22.8
 
MARITAL STATUS
Males 15 years and over
166,217
166,187
164,190 *
160,976 *
Never married
36.23%
33.81% *
33.68% *
33.66% *
Now married, except separated
50.30%
51.03%
51.85%
52.31%
Separated
2.55%
2.96%
2.08%
2.43%
Widowed
2.84%
3.32%
3.23%
3.01%
Divorced
8.08%
8.87%
9.15%
8.59%
 
Females 15 years and over
186,474
185,870 *
185,642 *
182,428 *
Never married
30.71%
29.06%
28.41% *
28.50% *
Now married, except separated
45.27%
44.67%
44.50%
44.83%
Separated
3.75%
3.18%
4.07%
3.58%
Widowed
10.38%
11.91% *
11.79% *
11.73% *
Divorced
9.89%
11.18%
11.23% *
11.36% *
 
FERTILITY
Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months
7,072
7,362
6,134
6,280
Unmarried women (widowed, divorced, and never married)
53.92%
40.61%
39.24%
55.00%
Per 1,000 unmarried women
61
49
40 *
57
As a percent of all women with a birth
53.9
40.6
39.2 *
55.0
Per 1,000 women 15 to 50 years old
61
64
53
55
Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old
33
71
22
36
Per 1,000 women 20 to 34 years old
124
104
99
113
Per 1,000 women 35 to 50 years old
20
31
26
17
 
GRANDPARENTS
Number of grandparents with own grandchildren under 18 years in households
7,389
8,812
7,442
7,884
Responsible for grandchildren
44.07%
46.99%
42.06%
38.12%
 
Characteristics of grandparents responsible for own grandchildren under 18 years
Percent Responsible for grandchildren
less than 1 year
22.76%
11.35%
19.46%
24.06%
1 or 2 years
8.97%
40.52% *
20.45% *
22.16% *
3 or 4 years
17.17%
10.26%
11.82%
13.38%
5 or more years
51.11%
37.87%
48.27%
40.40%
 
Percent who are female
63.5
69.1
65.7
70.7
Percent who are married
73.8
55.3
65.0
64.9
Percent who are in labor force
46.0
52.1
54.3
49.5
Percent who are in poverty
25.6
28.8
23.5
23.6
 
VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over
331,671
331,535
330,407 *
323,228 *
Civilian veterans
12.46%
12.19%
12.43%
12.50%
 
RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO
Population 1 year and over
441,278
439,933 *
436,721 *
436,559 *
Same house
85.98%
88.74% *
87.76%
86.34%
Different house in the U.S.
13.54%
10.51% *
11.72% *
12.91%
Same county
9.80%
7.50% *
9.09%
9.97%
Different county
3.74%
3.02%
2.63% *
2.93%
Same state
1.80%
1.18%
1.06% *
1.35%
Different state
1.94%
1.84%
1.57%
1.58%
Abroad
0.47%
0.74%
0.52%
0.75%
 
PLACE OF BIRTH, CITIZENSHIP, AND YEAR OF ENTRY
Total population
446,908
444,902 c
441,433 c
441,799 c
Native
92.50%
92.43%
92.37%
92.31%
Born in United States
85.24%
85.13%
85.56%
85.06%
State of residence
67.17%
66.88%
67.28%
66.47%
Different state
18.07%
18.25%
18.28%
18.59%
Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s)
7.26%
7.30%
6.81%
7.25%
Foreign born
7.50%
7.57%
7.63%
7.69%
Naturalized citizen
48.55%
45.07%
47.21%
47.53%
Not a citizen
51.45%
54.93%
52.79%
52.47%
Entered 1990 or later
48.08%
47.29%
36.24% *
35.41% *
Entered before 1990
51.92%
52.71%
63.76% *
64.59% *
 
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Foreign-born population with region of birth reported
33,515
33,694
33,674
33,963
Europe
53.32%
55.83%
53.83%
53.58%
Asia
18.65%
15.38% *
15.31% *
17.98%
Africa
3.04%
3.02%
1.87%
1.63%
Oceania
0.15%
0.00%
0.71%
0.16%
Latin America
18.58%
20.15%
21.12%
18.62%
Northern America
6.27%
5.62%
7.17%
8.04%
 
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over
418,355
417,093 *
414,011 *
412,038 *
English only
76.89%
77.42%
77.92%
78.18%
Language other than English
23.11%
22.58%
22.08%
21.82%
Speak English less than "very well"
9.70%
8.87%
9.49%
9.92%
Spanish
13.82%
13.80%
13.32%
12.64% *
Speak English less than "very well"
5.89%
5.07%
5.78%
5.83%
Other Indo-European languages
7.49%
7.06%
7.63%
7.77%
Speak English less than "very well"
2.92%
3.03%
3.00%
3.28%
Asian and Pacific Islander languages
1.40%
1.11% *
0.87% *
1.12%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.75%
0.65%
0.60%
0.75%
Other languages
0.41%
0.61%
0.26%
0.30%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.13%
0.12%
0.10%
0.06%
 
ANCESTRY (TOTAL REPORTED)
Total Population
446,908
444,902 c
441,433 c
441,799 c
Arab
0.46%
0.50%
0.47%
0.84%
Czech
0.12%
0.27%
0.28% *
0.22%
Danish
0.06%
0.31% *
0.18% *
0.16% *
Dutch
0.55%
0.62%
0.69%
0.65%
English
9.88%
8.34% *
8.98%
8.82%
French (except Basque)
15.98%
15.40%
14.97%
16.20%
French Canadian
5.13%
5.94%
6.26% *
6.25% *
German
5.74%
5.66%
5.74%
5.78%
Greek
1.08%
1.14%
0.89%
0.97%
Hungarian
0.25%
0.20%
0.24%
0.25%
Irish
17.29%
17.48%
18.85% *
17.75%
Italian
11.94%
12.21%
11.34%
11.53%
Lithuanian
0.60%
0.44%
0.40%
0.49%
Norwegian
0.30%
0.38%
0.16%
0.29%
Polish
13.17%
11.96%
11.56% *
11.85% *
Portuguese
2.45%
2.20%
2.20%
2.67%
Russian
1.79%
1.39%
1.99%
1.49%
Scotch-Irish
1.36%
1.22%
1.50%
1.37%
Scottish
2.03%
1.82%
2.18%
2.19%
Slovak
0.26%
0.18%
0.17%
0.15%
Subsaharan African
0.21%
0.59% *
0.29%
0.35%
Swedish
1.42%
0.99%
1.29%
1.03%
Swiss
0.08%
0.05%
0.10%
0.04%
Ukrainian
1.03%
1.54%
0.75%
1.10%
United States or American
2.13%
3.63% *
3.37% *
3.02% *
Welsh
0.23%
0.25%
0.25%
0.19%
West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)
1.01%
1.14%
1.13%
0.89%
 
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Footnotes

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Ancestry listed in this table refers to the total number of reports; for example, the estimate given for Russian represents the number of people who listed Russian as either their first or second ancestry. This table lists only the largest ancestry groups; see the Detailed Tables for more categories. Race and Hispanic origin groups are not included in this table because official data for those groups come from the Race and Hispanic origin questions rather than the ancestry question (see Table 1).

1. An '-' entry in an Estimate column indicates that no sample observations were available to compute an estimate.
2. An '-' following a median estimate means the median falls in the lowest interval of an open-ended distribution.
3. An '+' following a median estimate means the median falls in the upper interval of an open-ended distribution.
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