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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Iroquois 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 31,334 100.0
      enrolled in school 7,606 100.0   Native 30,570 97.6
Nursery school, preschool 479 6.3       Born in United States 30,476 97.3
Kindergarten 447 5.9           State of residence 26,072 83.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 3,659 48.1           Different state 4,404 14.1
High school (grades 9-12) 2,014 26.5       Born outside United States 94 0.3
College or graduate school 1,007 13.2   Foreign born 764 2.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 339 1.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 266 0.8
  Population 25 years and over 21,111 100.0       Not a citizen 498 1.6
Less than 9th grade 1,713 8.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,440 11.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 8,576 40.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 764 100.0
Some college, no degree 4,573 21.7   Europe 224 29.3
Associate degree 1,310 6.2   Asia 104 13.6
Bachelor's degree 1,523 7.2   Africa 5 0.7
Graduate or professional degree 976 4.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 415 54.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.3 (X)   Northern America 16 2.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 29,388 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 24,884 100.0   English only 27,885 94.9
Never married 5,147 20.7   Language other than English 1,503 5.1
Now married, except separated 15,431 62.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 574 2.0
Separated 238 1.0   Spanish 869 3.0
Widowed 2,156 8.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 393 1.3
 Female 1,778 7.1   Other Indo-European languages 559 1.9
Divorced 1,912 7.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 172 0.6
 Female 996 4.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 64 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 31,334 100.0
           under 18 years 469 100.0     Total ancestries reported 31,220 99.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 189 40.3   Arab 11 0.0
        Czech¹ 126 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 247 0.8
          Civilian population 18 years and over 23,339 100.0   Dutch 984 3.1
Civilian veterans 3,299 14.1   English 3,075 9.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 2,521 8.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 553 1.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 10,307 32.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 7,154 100.0   Greek 15 0.0
With a disability 531 7.4   Hungarian 59 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 16,382 100.0   Irish¹ 3,532 11.3
With a disability 2,647 16.2   Italian 789 2.5
 Percent employed 57.9 (X)   Lithuanian 39 0.1
No disability 13,735 83.8   Norwegian 268 0.9
 Percent employed 83.2 (X)   Polish 807 2.6
     Population 65 years and over 5,192 100.0   Portuguese 8 0.0
With a disability 2,095 40.4   Russian 39 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 417 1.3
        Scottish 329 1.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 38 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 29,388 100.0   Subsaharan African 11 0.0
Same house in 1995 19,147 65.2   Swedish 888 2.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 10,036 34.1   Swiss 214 0.7
 Same county 5,667 19.3   Ukrainian 52 0.2
 Different county 4,369 14.9   United States or American 2,714 8.7
  Same state 3,296 11.2   Welsh 63 0.2
  Different state 1,073 3.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 4 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 205 0.7   Other ancestries 3,110 9.9
 
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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