
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 | 644,356 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 185,035 | 100.0 | Native | 548,820 | 85.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 16,850 | 9.1 | Born in United States | 541,781 | 84.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 11,513 | 6.2 | State of residence | 379,444 | 58.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 86,422 | 46.7 | Different state | 162,337 | 25.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 37,591 | 20.3 | Born outside United States | 7,039 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 32,659 | 17.7 | Foreign born | 95,536 | 14.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 45,092 | 7.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 35,300 | 5.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 398,265 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 60,236 | 9.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 23,819 | 6.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 29,640 | 7.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 85,056 | 21.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 95,536 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 84,499 | 21.2 | Europe | 21,674 | 22.7 | |
| Associate degree | 21,525 | 5.4 | Asia | 19,849 | 20.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 95,750 | 24.0 | Africa | 902 | 0.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 57,976 | 14.6 | Oceania | 266 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 51,064 | 53.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.6 | (X) | Northern America | 1,781 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 38.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 591,519 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 483,528 | 100.0 | English only | 464,971 | 78.6 | |
| Never married | 118,850 | 24.6 | Language other than English | 126,548 | 21.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 300,474 | 62.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58,966 | 10.0 | |
| Separated | 5,947 | 1.2 | Spanish | 76,049 | 12.9 | |
| Widowed | 20,956 | 4.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42,631 | 7.2 | |
| Female | 17,001 | 3.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 32,238 | 5.5 | |
| Divorced | 37,301 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,467 | 1.6 | |
| Female | 22,290 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 15,710 | 2.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,282 | 1.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 644,356 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 10,127 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 747,907 | 116.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,292 | 32.5 | Arab | 1,635 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 7,840 | 1.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 5,348 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 442,570 | 100.0 | Dutch | 8,724 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 48,101 | 10.9 | English | 47,469 | 7.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 15,261 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,746 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 138,880 | 21.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 156,934 | 100.0 | Greek | 6,267 | 1.0 | |
| With a disability | 10,484 | 6.7 | Hungarian | 4,561 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 364,479 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 82,286 | 12.8 | |
| With a disability | 48,296 | 13.3 | Italian | 45,060 | 7.0 | |
| Percent employed | 65.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 4,725 | 0.7 | |
| No disability | 316,183 | 86.7 | Norwegian | 14,612 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 78.9 | (X) | Polish | 57,249 | 8.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 51,714 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 477 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 17,878 | 34.6 | Russian | 21,109 | 3.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 6,688 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 10,116 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2,235 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 591,519 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,356 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 308,970 | 52.2 | Swedish | 21,202 | 3.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 260,127 | 44.0 | Swiss | 2,154 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 130,584 | 22.1 | Ukrainian | 4,026 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 129,543 | 21.9 | United States or American | 27,800 | 4.3 | |
| Same state | 70,156 | 11.9 | Welsh | 2,809 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 59,387 | 10.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,884 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 22,422 | 3.8 | Other ancestries | 201,388 | 31.3 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

