DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: DuPage 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 | 904,161 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 254,238 | 100.0 | Native | 765,505 | 84.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 21,174 | 8.3 | Born in United States | 758,785 | 83.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 13,723 | 5.4 | State of residence | 580,141 | 64.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 110,094 | 43.3 | Different state | 178,644 | 19.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 51,552 | 20.3 | Born outside United States | 6,720 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 57,695 | 22.7 | Foreign born | 138,656 | 15.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 62,177 | 6.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 61,601 | 6.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 589,120 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 77,055 | 8.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 22,993 | 3.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 35,698 | 6.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 121,375 | 20.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 138,656 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 126,548 | 21.5 | Europe | 34,920 | 25.2 | |
| Associate degree | 37,054 | 6.3 | Asia | 55,937 | 40.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 158,151 | 26.8 | Africa | 2,394 | 1.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 87,301 | 14.8 | Oceania | 320 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 41,996 | 30.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.0 | (X) | Northern America | 3,089 | 2.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 41.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 838,636 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 701,505 | 100.0 | English only | 664,523 | 79.2 | |
| Never married | 175,800 | 25.1 | Language other than English | 174,113 | 20.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 429,583 | 61.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 71,188 | 8.5 | |
| Separated | 6,684 | 1.0 | Spanish | 64,823 | 7.7 | |
| Widowed | 36,830 | 5.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 35,070 | 4.2 | |
| Female | 30,197 | 4.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 70,539 | 8.4 | |
| Divorced | 52,608 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22,936 | 2.7 | |
| Female | 31,522 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 34,258 | 4.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11,954 | 1.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 904,161 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 12,720 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,129,422 | 124.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,396 | 26.7 | Arab | 4,972 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 29,796 | 3.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 7,408 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 662,673 | 100.0 | Dutch | 16,767 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 62,997 | 9.5 | English | 71,152 | 7.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 21,601 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4,835 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 215,842 | 23.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 207,199 | 100.0 | Greek | 11,634 | 1.3 | |
| With a disability | 11,649 | 5.6 | Hungarian | 5,788 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 541,715 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 150,795 | 16.7 | |
| With a disability | 61,879 | 11.4 | Italian | 108,862 | 12.0 | |
| Percent employed | 68.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11,516 | 1.3 | |
| No disability | 479,836 | 88.6 | Norwegian | 19,419 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 81.3 | (X) | Polish | 110,425 | 12.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 81,312 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 613 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 27,480 | 33.8 | Russian | 8,132 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 10,945 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 14,548 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5,279 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 838,636 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,805 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 480,649 | 57.3 | Swedish | 30,914 | 3.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 326,792 | 39.0 | Swiss | 2,997 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 162,250 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 5,247 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 164,542 | 19.6 | United States or American | 22,617 | 2.5 | |
| Same state | 108,161 | 12.9 | Welsh | 5,314 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 56,381 | 6.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 915 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 31,195 | 3.7 | Other ancestries | 228,284 | 25.2 | |
| 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)
