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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
153,814
161,446 *
155,269
168,287 *
Nursery school, preschool
3.52%
4.48%
4.94% *
4.00%
Kindergarten
4.50%
5.10%
3.96%
4.48%
Elementary school (grades 1-8)
41.87%
40.42% *
41.42%
43.79% *
High school grade (grades 9-12)
25.50%
22.92% *
24.57%
24.62%
College or graduate school
24.61%
27.08%
25.11%
23.11%
 
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over
401,120
401,044
405,540 *
397,643 *
Less than 9th grade
6.03%
6.59%
6.80%
7.23% *
9th to 12th grade, no diploma
5.61%
6.48% *
6.53% *
7.11% *
High school graduate (including equivalency)
30.18%
30.15%
30.33%
28.94%
Some college, no degree
23.63%
23.76%
23.43%
24.18%
Associate degree
9.52%
9.25%
9.57%
9.61%
Bachelor's degree
18.67%
17.03% *
17.67%
17.46%
Graduate or professional degree
6.37%
6.73%
5.68%
5.47% *
 
Percent high school graduate or higher
88.4
86.9 *
86.7 *
85.7 *
Percent bachelor's degree or higher
25.0
23.8
23.3
22.9 *
 
MARITAL STATUS
Males 15 years and over
243,406
242,928
247,811 *
241,393 *
Never married
31.72%
31.68%
32.29%
29.63% *
Now married, except separated
57.46%
57.43%
57.78%
60.17% *
Separated
0.55%
0.96% *
0.52%
0.78%
Widowed
2.15%
2.45%
2.29%
2.27%
Divorced
8.12%
7.47%
7.13%
7.14%
 
Females 15 years and over
247,627
248,512
252,172 *
247,889
Never married
22.68%
22.94%
22.79%
21.49%
Now married, except separated
56.85%
55.42%
56.28%
58.40%
Separated
0.78%
0.76%
0.85%
0.67%
Widowed
10.82%
10.70%
10.75%
10.17%
Divorced
8.87%
10.17%
9.32%
9.28%
 
FERTILITY
Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months
7,917
8,948
7,827
8,055
Unmarried women (widowed, divorced, and never married)
22.36%
30.33%
33.38%
18.98%
Per 1,000 unmarried women
26
38
37
22
As a percent of all women with a birth
22.4
30.3
33.4
19.0
Per 1,000 women 15 to 50 years old
51
57
49
51
Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old
32
19
26
12 *
Per 1,000 women 20 to 34 years old
110
117
103
109
Per 1,000 women 35 to 50 years old
9
19 *
14
17 *
 
GRANDPARENTS
Number of grandparents with own grandchildren under 18 years in households
4,805
4,903
3,159 *
4,734
Responsible for grandchildren
74.15%
50.76% *
49.45% *
64.79%
 
Characteristics of grandparents responsible for own grandchildren under 18 years
Percent Responsible for grandchildren
less than 1 year
36.37%
34.03%
31.37%
14.51% *
1 or 2 years
17.34%
8.88%
23.88%
14.93%
3 or 4 years
14.01%
15.67%
19.33%
27.42%
5 or more years
32.28%
41.42%
25.42%
43.14%
 
Percent who are female
58.7
61.7
54.6
62.8
Percent who are married
82.4
47.6 *
46.8 *
74.4
Percent who are in labor force
48.5
57.8
61.4
53.0
Percent who are in poverty
22.3
23.6
18.1
21.2
 
VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over
459,123
458,751
466,670 *
454,421 *
Civilian veterans
13.78%
12.93%
12.68% *
13.23%
 
RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO
Population 1 year and over
601,861
603,842 *
605,009 *
612,335 *
Same house
87.31%
85.01% *
86.35%
84.06% *
Different house in the U.S.
12.24%
14.81% *
13.23%
15.53% *
Same county
8.07%
8.80%
8.34%
9.24%
Different county
4.17%
6.01% *
4.89%
6.30% *
Same state
1.78%
2.66% *
2.39% *
3.33% *
Different state
2.39%
3.34% *
2.50%
2.97%
Abroad
0.45%
0.18% *
0.42%
0.41%
 
PLACE OF BIRTH, CITIZENSHIP, AND YEAR OF ENTRY
Total population
609,236
610,245 c
610,793 c
618,569 c
Native
97.30%
97.86%
97.60%
97.86%
Born in United States
96.58%
97.00%
96.82%
96.94%
State of residence
71.28%
71.02%
72.13%
72.48%
Different state
25.29%
25.99%
24.69%
24.45%
Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s)
0.72%
0.86%
0.79%
0.93%
Foreign born
2.70%
2.14%
2.40%
2.14%
Naturalized citizen
49.47%
59.40%
53.05%
50.83%
Not a citizen
50.53%
40.60% *
46.95%
49.17%
Entered 1990 or later
51.88%
49.82%
47.80%
43.14% *
Entered before 1990
48.12%
50.18%
52.20%
56.86%
 
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Foreign-born population with region of birth reported
16,474
13,046
14,629
13,232
Europe
26.53%
16.72% *
24.19%
31.64%
Asia
28.15%
32.08%
21.69%
24.52%
Africa
6.90%
1.79% *
1.55% *
2.68% *
Oceania
1.07%
0.00%
0.00%
1.78%
Latin America
15.58%
11.07%
9.66%
10.41%
Northern America
21.77%
38.34%
42.91%
28.97%
 
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over
572,574
573,542
578,323 *
580,121 *
English only
94.25%
94.44%
94.85%
94.39%
Language other than English
5.75%
5.56%
5.15%
5.61%
Speak English less than "very well"
1.60%
1.77%
1.16% *
1.28%
Spanish
1.35%
1.20%
1.21%
1.19%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.37%
0.49%
0.31%
0.26%
Other Indo-European languages
3.54%
3.53%
3.10%
3.53%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.94%
0.94%
0.55% *
0.77%
Asian and Pacific Islander languages
0.42%
0.43%
0.40%
0.29%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.20%
0.23%
0.18%
0.16%
Other languages
0.43%
0.40%
0.44%
0.59%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.09%
0.10%
0.13%
0.09%
 
ANCESTRY (TOTAL REPORTED)
Total Population
609,236
610,245 c
610,793 c
618,569 c
Arab
0.22%
0.18%
0.26%
0.13%
Czech
2.00%
1.95%
1.55%
1.88%
Danish
1.56%
1.65%
1.99%
1.54%
Dutch
1.46%
1.38%
1.34%
1.59%
English
6.07%
6.31%
5.62%
5.76%
French (except Basque)
4.65%
5.59%
5.06%
5.43%
French Canadian
1.01%
0.99%
1.52%
1.30%
German
47.29%
46.69%
45.89%
46.61%
Greek
0.18%
0.09%
0.09%
0.02%
Hungarian
0.46%
0.65%
0.61%
0.37%
Irish
7.67%
8.53%
7.57%
7.56%
Italian
0.89%
0.81%
1.23%
0.78%
Lithuanian
0.00%
0.03%
0.01%
0.03%
Norwegian
28.69%
30.01%
30.61%
30.13%
Polish
2.98%
2.28%
2.79%
3.07%
Portuguese
0.05%
0.05%
0.05%
0.00%
Russian
3.78%
3.69%
3.77%
3.81%
Scotch-Irish
1.50%
1.21%
1.17%
1.46%
Scottish
1.49%
1.77%
1.70%
1.41%
Slovak
0.03%
0.07%
0.05%
0.04%
Subsaharan African
0.19%
0.14%
0.04% *
0.06% *
Swedish
5.12%
5.29%
5.60%
5.30%
Swiss
0.29%
0.17%
0.27%
0.34%
Ukrainian
0.54%
0.81%
0.65%
0.73%
United States or American
2.39%
2.44%
2.29%
2.31%
Welsh
0.27%
0.32%
0.22%
0.23%
West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)
0.07%
0.12%
0.03%
0.02%
 
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Footnotes

The profile universe is limited to the household population and excludes the population living in institutions, college dormitories, and other group quarters. Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability.

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.
4. An 'N' entry in an Estimate column indicates that data for this geographic area cannot be displayed because the number of sample cases is too small.

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