DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Union 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 | 7,349 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,818 | 100.0 | Native | 7,321 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 99 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 7,299 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 120 | 6.6 | State of residence | 3,710 | 50.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 926 | 50.9 | Different state | 3,589 | 48.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 446 | 24.5 | Born outside United States | 22 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 227 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 28 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 23 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,784 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 240 | 5.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 721 | 15.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,180 | 45.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 28 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 830 | 17.3 | Europe | 8 | 28.6 | |
| Associate degree | 283 | 5.9 | Asia | 11 | 39.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 358 | 7.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 172 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 4 | 14.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.9 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 17.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,848 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,725 | 100.0 | English only | 6,583 | 96.1 | |
| Never married | 1,069 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 265 | 3.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,694 | 64.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 92 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 30 | 0.5 | Spanish | 146 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 355 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 310 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 76 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 577 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 35 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 284 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 38 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,349 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 121 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,009 | 81.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 73 | 60.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,338 | 100.0 | Dutch | 129 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 657 | 12.3 | English | 748 | 10.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 223 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,546 | 21.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,756 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 151 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,119 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 685 | 9.3 | |
| With a disability | 918 | 22.3 | Italian | 170 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 65.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,201 | 77.7 | Norwegian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 80.3 | (X) | Polish | 64 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 895 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 409 | 45.7 | Russian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 108 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 102 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,848 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,481 | 65.4 | Swedish | 47 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,362 | 34.5 | Swiss | 20 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,122 | 16.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,240 | 18.1 | United States or American | 1,742 | 23.7 | |
| Same state | 711 | 10.4 | Welsh | 37 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 529 | 7.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 345 | 4.7 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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