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 Allegheny County
Data followed by an * indicates a Significant Difference at the 90 percent level between that data and the data from the most current year.  Data followed by a "c" indicates the estimate for that year and the current year are both controlled; a statistical test is not appropriate.
TABLE 2. SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS
  2003
Estimate		 2002
Estimate		 2001
Estimate		 2000
Estimate
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school
293,722
300,520
306,235 *
291,442
Nursery school, preschool
6.25%
5.54%
5.61%
7.08%
Kindergarten
5.55%
3.24% *
5.12%
5.19%
Elementary school (grades 1-8)
40.47%
43.57% *
39.69%
42.33%
High school grade (grades 9-12)
21.22%
21.96%
21.32%
21.75%
College or graduate school
26.51%
25.69%
28.25%
23.66%
 
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over
856,436
859,091
864,318 *
868,133 *
Less than 9th grade
2.20%
2.55%
3.28% *
3.69% *
9th to 12th grade, no diploma
6.61%
7.78%
8.33% *
8.50% *
High school graduate (including equivalency)
34.52%
34.34%
34.88%
34.36%
Some college, no degree
16.46%
15.66%
16.84%
17.08%
Associate degree
8.27%
8.51%
7.49%
6.78% *
Bachelor's degree
19.51%
18.65%
17.64% *
18.62%
Graduate or professional degree
12.43%
12.53%
11.54%
10.98%
 
Percent high school graduate or higher
91.2
89.7 *
88.4 *
87.8 *
Percent bachelor's degree or higher
31.9
31.2
29.2 *
29.6 *
 
MARITAL STATUS
Males 15 years and over
468,140
469,621
470,407
469,114
Never married
32.62%
32.39%
32.94%
32.68%
Now married, except separated
53.16%
54.27%
53.87%
54.42%
Separated
1.97%
2.57%
1.97%
2.09%
Widowed
3.60%
3.94%
3.50%
3.36%
Divorced
8.65%
6.84% *
7.71%
7.45%
 
Females 15 years and over
532,494
535,081
538,554 *
538,803 *
Never married
27.08%
26.68%
26.47%
26.91%
Now married, except separated
46.31%
48.47%
45.53%
46.47%
Separated
2.56%
2.33%
2.91%
2.90%
Widowed
13.57%
13.18%
15.13% *
13.48%
Divorced
10.49%
9.34%
9.95%
10.24%
 
FERTILITY
Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months
12,778
19,086 *
18,058 *
15,477
Unmarried women (widowed, divorced, and never married)
37.53%
19.86% *
24.11%
34.79%
Per 1,000 unmarried women
30
25
28
33
As a percent of all women with a birth
37.5
19.9 *
24.1
34.8
Per 1,000 women 15 to 50 years old
42
62 *
57 *
50
Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old
22
14
54
27
Per 1,000 women 20 to 34 years old
79
117
93
98
Per 1,000 women 35 to 50 years old
21
32
34
19
 
GRANDPARENTS
Number of grandparents with own grandchildren under 18 years in households
15,951
19,285
22,306
16,482
Responsible for grandchildren
45.66%
44.56%
39.45%
48.47%
 
Characteristics of grandparents responsible for own grandchildren under 18 years
Percent Responsible for grandchildren
less than 1 year
10.65%
19.22%
18.32%
22.18%
1 or 2 years
5.12%
31.64% *
27.86% *
15.35%
3 or 4 years
39.21%
20.70%
25.73%
18.91%
5 or more years
45.01%
28.43%
28.09%
43.56%
 
Percent who are female
65.3
73.9
62.7
70.0
Percent who are married
60.7
63.4
68.6
61.7
Percent who are in labor force
40.4
71.7 *
58.0
61.6
Percent who are in poverty
31.1
11.3
11.6
18.1
 
VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over
951,579
955,693 *
960,445 *
960,285 *
Civilian veterans
13.18%
12.39%
13.84%
13.66%
 
RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO
Population 1 year and over
1,206,860
1,212,834 *
1,215,985 *
1,228,726 *
Same house
87.85%
88.36%
87.02%
86.78%
Different house in the U.S.
11.52%
10.93%
12.73%
12.78%
Same county
8.50%
8.08%
9.18%
9.73%
Different county
3.02%
2.85%
3.55%
3.05%
Same state
0.85%
1.42% *
1.59% *
1.44%
Different state
2.17%
1.44%
1.97%
1.62%
Abroad
0.64%
0.71%
0.25% *
0.43%
 
PLACE OF BIRTH, CITIZENSHIP, AND YEAR OF ENTRY
Total population
1,220,387
1,229,569 c
1,229,997 c
1,241,049 c
Native
95.85%
95.81%
96.25%
96.44%
Born in United States
95.27%
95.06%
95.61%
96.09%
State of residence
81.47%
82.30%
82.01%
82.61%
Different state
13.80%
12.76%
13.60%
13.47%
Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s)
0.58%
0.75%
0.64%
0.35%
Foreign born
4.15%
4.19%
3.75%
3.56%
Naturalized citizen
48.41%
48.89%
39.52% *
50.72%
Not a citizen
51.59%
51.11%
60.48%
49.28%
Entered 1990 or later
52.16%
55.87%
50.61%
43.40%
Entered before 1990
47.84%
44.13%
49.39%
56.60% *
 
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Foreign-born population with region of birth reported
50,647
51,511
46,106
44,222
Europe
39.19%
41.22%
35.49%
31.18% *
Asia
39.95%
43.22%
45.57%
43.27%
Africa
10.91%
9.71%
5.33%
9.14%
Oceania
0.34%
0.00%
0.00%
0.45%
Latin America
8.75%
4.28%
8.23%
7.83%
Northern America
0.86%
1.57%
5.38% *
8.12% *
 
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over
1,151,115
1,159,276 *
1,162,945 *
1,169,561 *
English only
94.03%
93.73%
93.88%
93.73%
Language other than English
5.97%
6.27%
6.12%
6.27%
Speak English less than "very well"
2.08%
2.36%
1.60%
1.78%
Spanish
1.10%
0.80%
1.33%
1.11%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.41%
0.19% *
0.43%
0.27%
Other Indo-European languages
3.21%
3.73%
3.25%
3.45%
Speak English less than "very well"
1.18%
1.21%
0.47% *
0.76%
Asian and Pacific Islander languages
1.18%
0.95%
1.17%
0.93%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.38%
0.51%
0.59%
0.45%
Other languages
0.49%
0.79%
0.36%
0.78%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.11%
0.45%
0.10%
0.30%
 
ANCESTRY (TOTAL REPORTED)
Total Population
1,220,387
1,229,569 c
1,229,997 c
1,241,049 c
Arab
0.37%
1.08% *
0.83% *
0.65%
Czech
0.63%
0.72%
0.81%
1.02%
Danish
0.09%
0.05%
0.06%
0.22%
Dutch
0.80%
0.90%
0.81%
0.70%
English
8.68%
8.87%
9.31%
8.90%
French (except Basque)
1.68%
1.93%
2.40% *
2.07%
French Canadian
0.10%
0.21%
0.03%
0.18%
German
27.11%
26.23%
29.25%
26.78%
Greek
0.69%
1.02%
0.60%
0.77%
Hungarian
2.02%
1.54%
2.13%
1.75%
Irish
19.29%
20.82%
19.75%
19.25%
Italian
15.69%
16.23%
15.50%
15.16%
Lithuanian
0.74%
0.76%
0.97%
0.95%
Norwegian
0.27%
0.27%
0.22%
0.17%
Polish
9.79%
9.07%
8.83%
9.71%
Portuguese
0.03%
0.05%
0.05%
0.12%
Russian
2.07%
1.76%
1.91%
2.14%
Scotch-Irish
2.45%
3.37% *
2.61%
3.17%
Scottish
1.68%
1.95%
2.26% *
1.66%
Slovak
3.95%
3.98%
4.26%
5.29% *
Subsaharan African
0.68%
0.82%
0.36%
0.50%
Swedish
0.72%
1.07%
1.07%
0.99%
Swiss
0.30%
0.44%
0.28%
0.15%
Ukrainian
1.22%
1.16%
1.24%
0.88%
United States or American
5.79%
3.67% *
4.22% *
2.61% *
Welsh
1.28%
1.35%
1.16%
1.36%
West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)
0.00%
0.06%
0.22% *
0.07% *
 
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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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