DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Henry County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 16,310 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,715 | 100.0 | Native | 16,126 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 201 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 16,013 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 255 | 6.9 | State of residence | 12,077 | 74.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,779 | 47.9 | Different state | 3,936 | 24.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 992 | 26.7 | Born outside United States | 113 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 488 | 13.1 | Foreign born | 184 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 97 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 64 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,967 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 120 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,337 | 12.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,317 | 21.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,192 | 29.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 184 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,016 | 18.4 | Europe | 12 | 6.5 | |
| Associate degree | 560 | 5.1 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,017 | 9.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 528 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 172 | 93.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,238 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,083 | 100.0 | English only | 14,804 | 97.2 | |
| Never married | 2,657 | 20.3 | Language other than English | 434 | 2.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,426 | 56.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 199 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 331 | 2.5 | Spanish | 277 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,434 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 130 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,190 | 9.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 88 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,235 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 618 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 36 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,310 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 479 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,919 | 73.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 222 | 46.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,362 | 100.0 | Dutch | 157 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,849 | 15.0 | English | 1,189 | 7.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 156 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 31 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 585 | 3.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,559 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 376 | 10.6 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,995 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,066 | 6.5 | |
| With a disability | 2,674 | 29.7 | Italian | 138 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 57.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,321 | 70.3 | Norwegian | 57 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 73.7 | (X) | Polish | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,520 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,365 | 54.2 | Russian | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 372 | 2.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 144 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,238 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 66 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,064 | 66.0 | Swedish | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,048 | 33.1 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,370 | 15.6 | Ukrainian | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,678 | 17.6 | United States or American | 2,326 | 14.3 | |
| Same state | 1,840 | 12.1 | Welsh | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 838 | 5.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 126 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 5,485 | 33.6 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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