Jefferson County - East-West Gateway Coordinating Council

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Diversity
Diversity
TABLE TABLE J2 J2 JEFFERSON JEFFERSON JEFFERSON CO CO EDUCATION
EDUCATION
ATTAINMENT
ATTAINMENT
Group Group 2000 2000 2000 2007 2007 2007 Percent
Percent Perc Percent Perc ent
Change
Change Total
Total
Less Less than than 9 9
th grade grade
8,247 6,754 -22.1 6.55
9 th th-12 12 th
12
th ; ; No No diploma diploma
diploma
17,749 17,157 -3.5 14.09
Highschool Highschool Graduate Graduate
45,773 49,331 7.2 36.34
Some Some College College
College
30,175 32,336 6.7 23.96
Associates Associates 8,722 13,002 32.9 6.92
Bachelor Bachelor degree
degree
10,650 14,985 28.9 8.46
Graduate/professional
Graduate/professional Graduate/professional
4,640 6,747 31.2 3.68
According to the 2007 American Fact Finder, 98.7 percent of Jefferson County can be
classified as Caucasian. The largest minority, African-American accounts for 2,413 people.
The largest ethnic population of the total population was Hispanic at 1.3 percent.
According to the 2007 Census, 1,890 individuals have a Native American background and
1,777 have an Asian background. Refer to Table J3.
TABLE TABLE J3 J3 JEFFERSON JEFFERSON COUNTY COUNTY DIVERSITY
DIVERSITY
CATEGORY CATEGORY
NU NUMBER NU
MBER PERCENT
PERCENT
One race 210,789 98.7
White 206,404 96.7
Black or African American 2,413 1.1
American Indian and Alaska Native 401 0.2
Asian 1282 0.6
Asian Indian 203 0.1
Chinese 254 0.1
Filipino 244 0.1
Japanese 39 0.0
Korean 147 0.1
Vietnamese 327 0.2
Other Asian 68 0.0
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific I 0 0.0
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