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Affirmative Action Statistics For Sussex County

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Sussex County
Table 1
Population by Sex and Minority Status - 2000
Population	Both Sexes		Male		Female
Population	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
All Persons	156,638	100	76,528	48.86	80,110	51.14
White	125,857	80.35	61,333	39.16	64,524	41.19
Black	23,319	14.89	11,234	7.17	12,085	7.72
American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut	946	0.6	475	0.3	471	0.3
Asian or Pacific Islander	1240	0.79	590	0.38	650	0.41
Other Race	5276	3.37	2896	1.85	2380	1.52
Hispanic Origin	6,915	4.41	4,006	2.56	2,909	1.86
All Minorities	30,781	19.65	15,195	9.7	15,586	9.95

Sussex County
Table 2
Labor Force Estimates by Sex and Minority Status - 2000
Civilian Labor Force	Both Sexes		Male		Female
Civilian Labor Force	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
All Persons	73,161	100	38,860	53.12	34,301	46.88
White	59,694	81.6	32,068	43.83	27,626	37.76
Black	10,192	13.93	4,872	6.66	5,320	7.27
American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut	492	0.67	235	0.32	257	0.35
Asian or Pacific Islander	454	0.62	201	0.27	253	0.35
Other Race	2,329	3.18	1,484	2.03	845	1.15
Hispanic Origin	3,084	4.22	2,183	2.98	901	1.23
All Minorities	13,467	18.41	6,792	9.28	6,675	9.12

Employment Level	Both Sexes		Male		Female
Employment Level	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
All Persons	69,596	100	37,154	53.39	32,442	46.61
White	57,284	82.3	30,874	44.36	26,410	37.95
Black	9,303	13.37	4,499	6.46	4,804	6.9
American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut	455	0.65	225	0.32	230	0.33
Asian or Pacific Islander	433	0.62	185	0.27	248	0.36
Other Race	2,121	3.05	1,371	1.97	750	1.08
Hispanic Origin	2,834	4.07	2,049	2.94	785	1.13
All Minorities	12,312	17.69	6,280	9.02	6,032	8.67

Unemployment Level	Both Sexes		Male		Female
Unemployment Level	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
All Persons	3,565	100	1,706	47.85	1,859	52.15
White	2,410	67.6	1,194	33.49	1,216	34.11
Black	889	24.94	373	10.46	516	14.47
American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut	37	1.04	10	0.28	27	0.76
Asian or Pacific Islander	21	0.59	16	0.45	5	0.14
Other Race	208	5.83	113	3.17	95	2.66
Hispanic Origin	250	7.01	134	3.76	116	3.25
All Minorities	1,155	32.4	512	14.36	643	18.04

Unemployment Rate	Both Sexes	Male	Female
Unemployment Rate	Rate (%)	Rate (%)	Rate (%)
All Persons	4.9	4.4	5.4
White	4	3.7	4.4
Black	8.7	7.7	9.7
American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut	7.5	4.3	10.5
Asian or Pacific Islander	4.6	8	2
Other Race	8.9	7.6	11.2
Hispanic Origin	8.1	6.1	12.9
All Minorities	8.6	7.5	9.6

Sussex County
Table 3
Occupation by Sex and Minority Status -- Percent Distribution
Both Sexes	All Persons	White Not Hispanic	Black Not Hispanic	American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut Not Hispanic	Asian or Pacific Islander Not Hispanic	Other Races Not Hispanic	Hispanic of All Races
All Occupations	73165	79.9	13.8	0.5	0.6	1	4.2
Management, Business and Financial Workers	7265	93.3	4.7	0.3	0.3	0.8	0.5
Science, Engineering and Computer Professionals	1160	92.7	4.3	0.3	1.6	0.3	1.6
Healthcare Practitioner Professionals	2330	87.8	5.4	0	2.8	0.6	3.8
Other Professional Workers	6590	88.6	8.6	0.7	0.2	0.7	1.3
Technicians	1700	85.6	9.4	1.8	0	0.2	2.9
Sales Workers	9505	87.3	8.3	0.5	0.5	1.1	2.2
Administrative Support Workers	9615	84	11.8	0.3	0.8	1.1	2
Construction and Extractive Craft Workers	5385	88.8	7.1	0.7	0	1.1	2.3
Installation, Maintenance and Repair Craft Workers	3800	85.3	10.9	0.8	0.1	0.4	2.5
Production Operative Workers	5945	49.5	29.9	0.3	0.9	1.2	18.2
Transportation and Material Moving Operative Workers	3830	71.8	21.5	0.8	0.5	1.6	4
Laborers and Helpers	4115	66.5	21.4	0.3	0.5	1.1	10.2
Protective Service Workers	1380	87.7	7.2	0.3	0	2.4	1.7
Service Workers, except Protective	10070	69	24	0.7	0.9	1.2	4.1
Unemployed, No Civilian Work Experience Since 1995	475	55.8	21.1	0	2.1	3.2	16.8

Female	All Females	White Not Hispanic	Black Not Hispanic	American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut Not Hispanic	Asian or Pacific Islander Not Hispanic	Other Races Not Hispanic	Hispanic of All Races
All Occupations	34295	37.3	7.2	0.3	0.3	0.6	1.2
Management, Business and Financial Workers	2833	35.5	2.8	0	0.1	0.4	0.3
Science, Engineering and Computer Professionals	278	21.6	1.7	0	0.3	0.3	0
Healthcare Practitioner Professionals	1768	68.5	4.1	0	1.5	0.6	1.2
Other Professional Workers	4228	56.8	5.5	0.5	0.2	0.6	0.8
Technicians	1129	55	7.9	1.2	0	0.2	2.1
Sales Workers	5399	48.1	6.5	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.8
Administrative Support Workers	7519	66.6	8.2	0.3	0.8	0.9	1.5
Construction and Extractive Craft Workers	179	3.1	0.2	0	0	0	0.1
Installation, Maintenance and Repair Craft Workers	258	5.7	0.9	0.1	0	0	0.1
Production Operative Workers	2344	16.2	16.3	0.2	0.4	0.8	5.6
Transportation and Material Moving Operative Workers	704	12.4	4.8	0	0.3	0.1	0.8
Laborers and Helpers	688	12.2	3	0.1	0.2	0.4	0.8
Protective Service Workers	133	7.2	1.8	0.3	0	0.3	0
Service Workers, except Protective	6590	46.2	16.2	0.7	0.4	0.8	1
Unemployed, No Civilian Work Experience Since 1995	245	32.6	13.7	0	0	0	5.3

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