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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
123,910
124,520
124,703
131,129 *
Nursery school, preschool
5.77%
6.07%
4.51%
4.47% *
Kindergarten
4.79%
4.59%
4.69%
4.94%
Elementary school (grades 1-8)
42.99%
43.76%
42.99%
44.82% *
High school grade (grades 9-12)
25.04%
25.09%
26.63%
25.15%
College or graduate school
21.40%
20.49%
21.17%
20.63%
 
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over
317,515
315,510 *
310,871 *
306,485 *
Less than 9th grade
2.50%
2.98%
2.44%
2.80%
9th to 12th grade, no diploma
7.15%
6.78%
9.08% *
9.59% *
High school graduate (including equivalency)
32.60%
32.64%
31.90%
30.43%
Some college, no degree
25.57%
26.15%
25.70%
25.70%
Associate degree
8.49%
8.02%
7.53%
7.30% *
Bachelor's degree
16.09%
16.24%
16.34%
17.09%
Graduate or professional degree
7.59%
7.19%
7.01%
7.09%
 
Percent high school graduate or higher
90.4
90.2
88.5 *
87.6 *
Percent bachelor's degree or higher
23.7
23.4
23.4
24.2
 
MARITAL STATUS
Males 15 years and over
193,922
192,204 *
189,630 *
186,866 *
Never married
26.65%
25.51%
25.54%
26.40%
Now married, except separated
58.92%
59.69%
59.64%
58.19%
Separated
1.35%
0.92%
0.97%
0.92%
Widowed
2.44%
2.18%
2.41%
2.37%
Divorced
10.65%
11.70%
11.44%
12.12% *
 
Females 15 years and over
196,874
194,685 *
192,605 *
189,010 *
Never married
20.26%
19.07%
19.60%
18.94%
Now married, except separated
57.34%
57.51%
56.86%
58.53%
Separated
1.31%
1.51%
1.51%
1.57%
Widowed
8.23%
8.97%
9.16%
8.28%
Divorced
12.85%
12.94%
12.87%
12.68%
 
FERTILITY
Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months
7,157
7,134
7,801
6,961
Unmarried women (widowed, divorced, and never married)
22.94%
33.12%
27.42%
20.07%
Per 1,000 unmarried women
30
44
41
28
As a percent of all women with a birth
22.9
33.1
27.4
20.1
Per 1,000 women 15 to 50 years old
57
57
62
56
Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old
29
45
38
49
Per 1,000 women 20 to 34 years old
128
115
136
117
Per 1,000 women 35 to 50 years old
13
19
16
14
 
GRANDPARENTS
Number of grandparents with own grandchildren under 18 years in households
6,712
6,328
6,562
6,013
Responsible for grandchildren
43.76%
54.46%
68.29% *
53.67%
 
Characteristics of grandparents responsible for own grandchildren under 18 years
Percent Responsible for grandchildren
less than 1 year
24.89%
21.85%
29.90%
31.27%
1 or 2 years
19.34%
20.78%
26.96%
29.69%
3 or 4 years
19.85%
14.48%
1.61% *
8.86%
5 or more years
35.92%
42.89%
41.53%
30.18%
 
Percent who are female
52.2
54.4
56.4
49.6
Percent who are married
67.2
90.2 *
79.8
73.2
Percent who are in labor force
58.0
63.4
63.1
60.0
Percent who are in poverty
2.2
12.2
9.3 *
16.3 *
 
VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over
366,342
361,139 *
356,119 *
349,212 *
Civilian veterans
14.56%
14.68%
15.08%
14.23%
 
RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO
Population 1 year and over
480,509
479,585
475,148 *
474,564 *
Same house
82.22%
81.41%
81.91%
80.95%
Different house in the U.S.
17.25%
18.43%
17.77%
18.63%
Same county
10.15%
11.00%
10.22%
11.03%
Different county
7.09%
7.43%
7.54%
7.60%
Same state
2.18%
2.24%
2.08%
2.46%
Different state
4.91%
5.19%
5.47%
5.14%
Abroad
0.53%
0.16% *
0.32%
0.42%
 
PLACE OF BIRTH, CITIZENSHIP, AND YEAR OF ENTRY
Total population
487,341
484,833 c
480,332 c
479,699 c
Native
97.82%
97.59%
97.91%
98.04%
Born in United States
97.12%
96.95%
97.21%
97.56%
State of residence
43.28%
41.75%
42.05%
41.86%
Different state
53.84%
55.20%
55.16%
55.69%
Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s)
0.70%
0.63%
0.70%
0.48%
Foreign born
2.18%
2.41%
2.09%
1.96%
Naturalized citizen
36.38%
39.46%
42.27%
37.32%
Not a citizen
63.62%
60.54%
57.73%
62.68%
Entered 1990 or later
51.87%
45.43%
41.04%
38.06%
Entered before 1990
48.13%
54.57%
58.96%
61.94%
 
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Foreign-born population with region of birth reported
10,643
11,708
10,041
9,410
Europe
28.23%
20.37%
24.80%
26.47%
Asia
18.24%
21.11%
16.69%
15.63%
Africa
0.99%
1.50%
0.86%
1.11%
Oceania
1.87%
0.00%
3.35%
1.29%
Latin America
44.00%
49.85%
47.05%
46.49%
Northern America
6.68%
7.16%
7.26%
9.01%
 
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over
456,351
454,597 *
450,105 *
448,512 *
English only
94.96%
94.14% *
94.11% *
94.50%
Language other than English
5.04%
5.86% *
5.89% *
5.50%
Speak English less than "very well"
1.53%
1.62%
1.41%
1.77%
Spanish
3.51%
3.64%
3.83%
3.57%
Speak English less than "very well"
1.20%
1.12%
0.94%
1.37%
Other Indo-European languages
0.78%
1.53% *
1.27% *
1.16%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.11%
0.34% *
0.23% *
0.30%
Asian and Pacific Islander languages
0.44%
0.36%
0.32%
0.22% *
Speak English less than "very well"
0.22%
0.11%
0.20%
0.06% *
Other languages
0.30%
0.34%
0.48%
0.55% *
Speak English less than "very well"
0.01%
0.05%
0.04% *
0.05%
 
ANCESTRY (TOTAL REPORTED)
Total Population
487,341
484,833 c
480,332 c
479,699 c
Arab
0.10%
0.09%
0.14%
0.18%
Czech
0.69%
0.53%
0.82%
0.66%
Danish
2.25%
2.07%
2.47%
2.35%
Dutch
2.23%
2.87% *
3.10% *
2.72%
English
20.22%
20.14%
20.56%
19.77%
French (except Basque)
3.31%
4.59% *
4.00%
4.16% *
French Canadian
0.77%
0.51%
0.67%
0.59%
German
27.54%
28.01%
27.30%
27.71%
Greek
0.61%
0.58%
0.50%
0.43%
Hungarian
0.26%
0.43%
0.29%
0.35%
Irish
14.41%
14.01%
14.75%
13.53%
Italian
3.81%
3.70%
3.30%
3.17%
Lithuanian
0.02%
0.09%
0.17% *
0.08%
Norwegian
4.21%
3.65%
3.78%
4.04%
Polish
1.63%
1.86%
1.54%
1.69%
Portuguese
0.20%
0.18%
0.12%
0.29%
Russian
0.83%
0.77%
0.54%
0.63%
Scotch-Irish
3.41%
2.90%
2.12% *
3.25%
Scottish
4.19%
3.80%
3.81%
2.84% *
Slovak
0.07%
0.09%
0.07%
0.17%
Subsaharan African
0.11%
0.12%
0.04%
0.05%
Swedish
3.65%
3.87%
3.72%
4.41% *
Swiss
0.79%
0.68%
0.88%
0.99%
Ukrainian
0.14%
0.10%
0.05%
0.08%
United States or American
6.26%
5.38%
5.63%
5.57%
Welsh
1.16%
1.11%
1.36%
1.39%
West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)
0.03%
0.02%
0.02%
0.01%
 
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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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