
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lake 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 | 58,309 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 14,144 | 100.0 | Native | 54,487 | 93.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 617 | 4.4 | Born in United States | 53,956 | 92.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 746 | 5.3 | State of residence | 36,595 | 62.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,960 | 49.2 | Different state | 17,361 | 29.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,526 | 24.9 | Born outside United States | 531 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,295 | 16.2 | Foreign born | 3,822 | 6.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,285 | 2.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,706 | 2.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 40,717 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,116 | 3.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,563 | 6.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,693 | 16.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,132 | 29.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3,822 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 11,414 | 28.0 | Europe | 978 | 25.6 | |
| Associate degree | 3,001 | 7.4 | Asia | 348 | 9.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,065 | 7.5 | Africa | 28 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,849 | 4.5 | Oceania | 64 | 1.7 | |
| Latin America | 2,169 | 56.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.3 | (X) | Northern America | 235 | 6.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 55,255 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 46,862 | 100.0 | English only | 49,641 | 89.8 | |
| Never married | 9,423 | 20.1 | Language other than English | 5,614 | 10.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 24,621 | 52.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,431 | 4.4 | |
| Separated | 1,204 | 2.6 | Spanish | 4,274 | 7.7 | |
| Widowed | 4,266 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,986 | 3.6 | |
| Female | 3,335 | 7.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 929 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 7,348 | 15.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 244 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 3,772 | 8.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 336 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 177 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 58,309 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,389 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 63,532 | 109.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 696 | 50.1 | Arab | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 192 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 505 | 0.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 44,320 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,409 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,924 | 20.1 | English | 7,728 | 13.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,556 | 4.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 395 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 10,097 | 17.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 12,596 | 100.0 | Greek | 104 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,298 | 10.3 | Hungarian | 140 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 30,836 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,838 | 13.4 | |
| With a disability | 9,950 | 32.3 | Italian | 3,644 | 6.2 | |
| Percent employed | 39.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 81 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 20,886 | 67.7 | Norwegian | 1,786 | 3.1 | |
| Percent employed | 68.5 | (X) | Polish | 798 | 1.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 11,195 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,053 | 1.8 | |
| With a disability | 5,040 | 45.0 | Russian | 422 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,307 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,635 | 2.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 22 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 55,255 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 70 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 28,677 | 51.9 | Swedish | 1,420 | 2.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 25,837 | 46.8 | Swiss | 322 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 12,393 | 22.4 | Ukrainian | 26 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 13,444 | 24.3 | United States or American | 4,122 | 7.1 | |
| Same state | 11,054 | 20.0 | Welsh | 602 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 2,390 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 741 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 15,186 | 26.0 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

