
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ogle 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 | 51,032 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 13,620 | 100.0 | Native | 48,822 | 95.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 880 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 48,714 | 95.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 694 | 5.1 | State of residence | 38,093 | 74.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,872 | 50.5 | Different state | 10,621 | 20.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,332 | 24.5 | Born outside United States | 108 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,842 | 13.5 | Foreign born | 2,210 | 4.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,105 | 2.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 839 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 33,317 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,371 | 2.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,867 | 5.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,778 | 11.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,114 | 36.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,210 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,706 | 23.1 | Europe | 400 | 18.1 | |
| Associate degree | 2,192 | 6.6 | Asia | 236 | 10.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,732 | 11.2 | Africa | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,928 | 5.8 | Oceania | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 1,525 | 69.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.1 | (X) | Northern America | 45 | 2.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 47,846 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 39,573 | 100.0 | English only | 44,309 | 92.6 | |
| Never married | 8,146 | 20.6 | Language other than English | 3,537 | 7.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 24,874 | 62.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,528 | 3.2 | |
| Separated | 493 | 1.2 | Spanish | 2,572 | 5.4 | |
| Widowed | 2,458 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,269 | 2.7 | |
| Female | 1,970 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 773 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 3,602 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 208 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,798 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 78 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 51,032 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 652 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 53,953 | 105.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 300 | 46.0 | Arab | 115 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 358 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 283 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 37,016 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,617 | 3.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,143 | 13.9 | English | 5,260 | 10.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,562 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 208 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 17,190 | 33.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 12,648 | 100.0 | Greek | 70 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 840 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 166 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 28,205 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,841 | 13.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,595 | 16.3 | Italian | 1,906 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 64.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 239 | 0.5 | |
| No disability | 23,610 | 83.7 | Norwegian | 1,818 | 3.6 | |
| Percent employed | 81.0 | (X) | Polish | 1,482 | 2.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,414 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 39 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,478 | 38.6 | Russian | 99 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 542 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 936 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 21 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 47,846 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 18 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 28,037 | 58.6 | Swedish | 2,849 | 5.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 19,073 | 39.9 | Swiss | 312 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 9,909 | 20.7 | Ukrainian | 87 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 9,164 | 19.2 | United States or American | 3,727 | 7.3 | |
| Same state | 7,059 | 14.8 | Welsh | 235 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 2,105 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 736 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 5,973 | 11.7 | |
| 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)

