DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: White 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 | 19,944 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,506 | 100.0 | Native | 19,548 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 252 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 19,476 | 97.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 229 | 5.1 | State of residence | 13,193 | 66.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,182 | 48.4 | Different state | 6,283 | 31.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 873 | 19.4 | Born outside United States | 72 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 970 | 21.5 | Foreign born | 396 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 122 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 227 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,473 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 169 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,219 | 9.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,018 | 15.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,734 | 35.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 396 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,797 | 20.8 | Europe | 173 | 43.7 | |
| Associate degree | 624 | 4.6 | Asia | 51 | 12.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,327 | 9.8 | Africa | 31 | 7.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 754 | 5.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 133 | 33.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.0 | (X) | Northern America | 8 | 2.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 18,703 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,038 | 100.0 | English only | 17,883 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 2,759 | 17.2 | Language other than English | 820 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,342 | 64.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 289 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 144 | 0.9 | Spanish | 524 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,104 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 202 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 972 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 210 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 1,689 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 60 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 995 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 19,944 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 317 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,094 | 80.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 151 | 47.6 | Arab | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 9 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,331 | 100.0 | Dutch | 302 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,380 | 15.5 | English | 2,024 | 10.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 318 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 37 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,681 | 8.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,295 | 100.0 | Greek | 37 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 363 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,467 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,963 | 9.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,444 | 21.3 | Italian | 393 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 58.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,023 | 78.7 | Norwegian | 80 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 78.3 | (X) | Polish | 170 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,761 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 20 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,266 | 45.9 | Russian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 714 | 3.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 488 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 30 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 18,703 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 153 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,614 | 51.4 | Swedish | 70 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,974 | 48.0 | Swiss | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 2,973 | 15.9 | Ukrainian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 6,001 | 32.1 | United States or American | 5,018 | 25.2 | |
| Same state | 3,976 | 21.3 | Welsh | 94 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 2,025 | 10.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 115 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 2,321 | 11.6 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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