
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Vermilion 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 | 83,919 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 19,917 | 100.0 | Native | 82,496 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,523 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 82,107 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,204 | 6.0 | State of residence | 66,202 | 78.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,438 | 47.4 | Different state | 15,905 | 19.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,655 | 23.4 | Born outside United States | 389 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,097 | 15.5 | Foreign born | 1,423 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 546 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 646 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 55,778 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 777 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,976 | 7.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,881 | 14.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 21,403 | 38.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,423 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 11,643 | 20.9 | Europe | 225 | 15.8 | |
| Associate degree | 3,930 | 7.0 | Asia | 346 | 24.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,625 | 8.3 | Africa | 62 | 4.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,320 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 749 | 52.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.7 | (X) | Northern America | 41 | 2.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 78,361 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 66,578 | 100.0 | English only | 74,986 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 14,804 | 22.2 | Language other than English | 3,375 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 37,460 | 56.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,256 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 1,097 | 1.6 | Spanish | 2,165 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 5,318 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 942 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 4,395 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 860 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 7,899 | 11.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 177 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 4,209 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 284 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 118 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 83,919 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,449 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 72,907 | 86.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 664 | 45.8 | Arab | 189 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 283 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 117 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 62,966 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,107 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 9,178 | 14.6 | English | 8,583 | 10.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,234 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 209 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 14,392 | 17.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 18,276 | 100.0 | Greek | 184 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,605 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 249 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 44,482 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 8,541 | 10.2 | |
| With a disability | 8,699 | 19.6 | Italian | 1,907 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 46.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 790 | 0.9 | |
| No disability | 35,783 | 80.4 | Norwegian | 485 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 77.1 | (X) | Polish | 1,766 | 2.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 12,630 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 46 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 5,384 | 42.6 | Russian | 89 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,147 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,166 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 164 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 78,361 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 224 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 46,772 | 59.7 | Swedish | 1,074 | 1.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 31,084 | 39.7 | Swiss | 143 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 22,629 | 28.9 | Ukrainian | 18 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 8,455 | 10.8 | United States or American | 11,159 | 13.3 | |
| Same state | 4,025 | 5.1 | Welsh | 486 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 4,430 | 5.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 70 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 505 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 15,085 | 18.0 | |
| 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)

