DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hardin 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 | 4,800 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 953 | 100.0 | Native | 4,725 | 98.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 31 | 3.3 | Born in United States | 4,722 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 3.7 | State of residence | 3,629 | 75.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 436 | 45.8 | Different state | 1,093 | 22.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 237 | 24.9 | Born outside United States | 3 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 214 | 22.5 | Foreign born | 75 | 1.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 57 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 13 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,442 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 62 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 513 | 14.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 584 | 17.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,000 | 29.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 75 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 790 | 23.0 | Europe | 52 | 69.3 | |
| Associate degree | 224 | 6.5 | Asia | 23 | 30.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 228 | 6.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 103 | 3.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.1 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,525 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,028 | 100.0 | English only | 4,429 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 753 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 96 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,412 | 59.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.2 | |
| Separated | 49 | 1.2 | Spanish | 37 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 378 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 305 | 7.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 43 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 436 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 235 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 4,800 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 18 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,017 | 62.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 12 | 66.7 | Arab | 11 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,817 | 100.0 | Dutch | 62 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 519 | 13.6 | English | 478 | 10.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 40 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 471 | 9.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 870 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 81 | 9.3 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,610 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 447 | 9.3 | |
| With a disability | 675 | 25.9 | Italian | 27 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 30.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,935 | 74.1 | Norwegian | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 72.2 | (X) | Polish | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 827 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 437 | 52.8 | Russian | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 84 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 77 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,525 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,951 | 65.2 | Swedish | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,539 | 34.0 | Swiss | 61 | 1.3 | |
| Same county | 874 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 665 | 14.7 | United States or American | 641 | 13.4 | |
| Same state | 527 | 11.6 | Welsh | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 138 | 3.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 35 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 543 | 11.3 | |
| 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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