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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
346,223
378,911 *
360,023
344,556
Nursery school, preschool
6.00%
5.85%
6.89%
4.23% *
Kindergarten
3.51%
4.27%
6.62% *
5.29% *
Elementary school (grades 1-8)
40.47%
39.28%
34.66% *
37.46%
High school grade (grades 9-12)
19.89%
17.77%
19.97%
19.82%
College or graduate school
30.13%
32.84%
31.85%
33.19%
 
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over
790,039
800,153
779,146
762,930
Less than 9th grade
6.51%
7.93%
8.81% *
7.90%
9th to 12th grade, no diploma
8.79%
11.99% *
10.72% *
11.75% *
High school graduate (including equivalency)
19.29%
12.70% *
14.71% *
13.59% *
Some college, no degree
21.11%
26.41% *
23.71% *
25.33% *
Associate degree
7.47%
6.11%
6.84%
6.86%
Bachelor's degree
22.04%
20.51%
20.87%
21.06%
Graduate or professional degree
14.79%
14.35%
14.34%
13.51%
 
Percent high school graduate or higher
84.7
80.1 *
80.5 *
80.3 *
Percent bachelor's degree or higher
36.8
34.9
35.2
34.6
 
MARITAL STATUS
Males 15 years and over
485,981
486,758
475,453
471,478
Never married
39.93%
39.95%
40.79%
43.13%
Now married, except separated
47.81%
48.69%
45.96%
44.90% *
Separated
1.31%
1.48%
2.61% *
1.89%
Widowed
2.76%
1.49% *
2.09%
2.00%
Divorced
8.20%
8.39%
8.55%
8.08%
 
Females 15 years and over
480,167
486,680
480,377
474,686
Never married
31.85%
28.75% *
29.52%
30.24%
Now married, except separated
46.22%
46.93%
46.12%
46.81%
Separated
2.63%
3.60%
4.27% *
3.56%
Widowed
7.58%
7.85%
8.97%
7.88%
Divorced
11.71%
12.87%
11.12%
11.51%
 
FERTILITY
Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months
18,093
17,562
18,772
23,044
Unmarried women (widowed, divorced, and never married)
29.78%
17.11%
29.41%
34.10%
Per 1,000 unmarried women
31
18
34
47
As a percent of all women with a birth
29.8
17.1
29.4
34.1
Per 1,000 women 15 to 50 years old
54
53
57
70
Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old
18
7
52
100 *
Per 1,000 women 20 to 34 years old
88
72
85
114
Per 1,000 women 35 to 50 years old
28
42
25
15
 
GRANDPARENTS
Number of grandparents with own grandchildren under 18 years in households
29,637
30,816
22,014
27,986
Responsible for grandchildren
25.45%
37.29%
31.10%
47.47% *
 
Characteristics of grandparents responsible for own grandchildren under 18 years
Percent Responsible for grandchildren
less than 1 year
22.11%
9.42%
32.68%
35.88%
1 or 2 years
17.34%
28.18%
34.41%
12.39%
3 or 4 years
22.71%
20.99%
0.00% *
21.17%
5 or more years
37.84%
41.41%
32.91%
30.56%
 
Percent who are female
61.2
57.0
58.6
49.5
Percent who are married
74.1
92.1
75.0
79.5
Percent who are in labor force
32.6
36.4
49.7
39.0
Percent who are in poverty
52.1
20.2 *
27.0
19.8 *
 
VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over
904,885
911,301
891,662
889,695
Civilian veterans
12.01%
11.70%
11.66%
12.31%
 
RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO
Population 1 year and over
1,203,205
1,225,296
1,204,771
1,172,421
Same house
83.61%
81.66%
80.82% *
79.48% *
Different house in the U.S.
15.15%
16.75%
17.83% *
18.93% *
Same county
11.21%
12.08%
12.69%
13.28%
Different county
3.94%
4.67%
5.14%
5.65% *
Same state
1.77%
2.49%
1.43%
2.29%
Different state
2.16%
2.18%
3.71% *
3.36% *
Abroad
1.24%
1.59%
1.35%
1.58%
 
PLACE OF BIRTH, CITIZENSHIP, AND YEAR OF ENTRY
Total population
1,220,734
1,239,522
1,225,416
1,190,725
Native
74.56%
72.11% *
74.81%
74.30%
Born in United States
72.87%
70.44% *
73.17%
72.66%
State of residence
41.08%
39.81%
42.77%
40.10%
Different state
31.79%
30.63%
30.40%
32.57%
Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s)
1.69%
1.67%
1.64%
1.64%
Foreign born
25.44%
27.89%
25.19%
25.70%
Naturalized citizen
41.09%
42.97%
43.67%
41.78%
Not a citizen
58.91%
57.03%
56.33%
58.22%
Entered 1990 or later
49.59%
42.87%
42.17%
41.54%
Entered before 1990
50.41%
57.13%
57.83% *
58.46% *
 
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Foreign-born population with region of birth reported
310,562
345,726
308,714
306,004
Europe
9.37%
10.52%
7.74%
9.30%
Asia
41.85%
42.16%
38.41% *
40.72%
Africa
2.46%
5.53%
3.56%
1.86%
Oceania
0.61%
0.84%
1.13%
0.45%
Latin America
43.73%
39.06%
47.07%
46.15%
Northern America
1.97%
1.89%
2.09%
1.51%
 
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over
1,138,163
1,149,450
1,121,063
1,105,741
English only
60.75%
59.58%
62.19%
61.63%
Language other than English
39.25%
40.42%
37.81%
38.37%
Speak English less than "very well"
20.12%
19.70%
19.28%
13.06% *
Spanish
22.64%
22.04%
23.42%
23.55%
Speak English less than "very well"
11.14%
10.65%
12.44%
7.45% *
Other Indo-European languages
4.07%
3.93%
2.91% *
2.76% *
Speak English less than "very well"
1.66%
1.37%
1.17%
0.87% *
Asian and Pacific Islander languages
11.56%
12.36%
10.39%
11.23%
Speak English less than "very well"
6.61%
6.43%
5.23%
4.64% *
Other languages
0.98%
2.09% *
1.08%
0.84%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.72%
1.25%
0.45%
0.10%
 
ANCESTRY (TOTAL REPORTED)
Total Population
1,220,734
1,239,522
1,225,416
1,190,725
Arab
0.51%
0.67%
0.48%
0.45%
Czech
0.35%
0.26%
0.37%
0.25%
Danish
0.29%
0.36%
0.52%
0.49%
Dutch
0.88%
1.11%
0.98%
1.25%
English
8.08%
8.32%
8.70%
8.41%
French (except Basque)
1.97%
2.94% *
1.69%
2.27%
French Canadian
0.54%
0.45%
0.34%
0.41%
German
10.73%
11.27%
10.67%
9.87%
Greek
0.46%
0.38%
0.48%
0.39%
Hungarian
0.64%
0.33% *
0.70%
0.72%
Irish
8.39%
6.78% *
7.33%
7.19%
Italian
4.35%
4.57%
3.94%
3.23% *
Lithuanian
0.16%
0.08%
0.13%
0.29%
Norwegian
1.28%
1.26%
1.22%
0.94%
Polish
1.42%
1.76%
1.59%
1.68%
Portuguese
0.53%
0.64%
0.57%
0.52%
Russian
1.84%
1.23%
1.11% *
0.95% *
Scotch-Irish
1.39%
1.32%
1.21%
1.36%
Scottish
1.74%
1.95%
1.48%
1.52%
Slovak
0.14%
0.27%
0.18%
0.09%
Subsaharan African
0.83%
1.39%
0.88%
0.71%
Swedish
1.51%
1.10%
1.06%
1.33%
Swiss
0.47%
0.29%
0.28%
0.22% *
Ukrainian
0.39%
0.13%
0.19%
0.14%
United States or American
4.74%
4.01%
4.57%
4.16%
Welsh
0.49%
0.49%
0.51%
0.47%
West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)
0.11%
0.10%
0.03%
0.15%
 
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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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