
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Butler 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 | 15,305 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,667 | 100.0 | Native | 15,174 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 258 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 15,128 | 98.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 230 | 6.3 | State of residence | 13,642 | 89.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,760 | 48.0 | Different state | 1,486 | 9.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 999 | 27.2 | Born outside United States | 46 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 420 | 11.5 | Foreign born | 131 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 73 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,563 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 58 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 967 | 9.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 918 | 8.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,376 | 41.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 131 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,238 | 21.2 | Europe | 75 | 57.3 | |
| Associate degree | 756 | 7.2 | Asia | 14 | 10.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 958 | 9.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 350 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 31 | 23.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.2 | (X) | Northern America | 11 | 8.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,444 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,299 | 100.0 | English only | 13,894 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 2,196 | 17.9 | Language other than English | 550 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,962 | 64.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 138 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 95 | 0.8 | Spanish | 245 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,241 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 79 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 953 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 290 | 2.0 | |
| Divorced | 805 | 6.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 55 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 389 | 3.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 15 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 15,305 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 100 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,920 | 104.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 38 | 38.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 119 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 420 | 2.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,539 | 100.0 | Dutch | 853 | 5.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,552 | 13.5 | English | 1,133 | 7.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 290 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 32 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,801 | 57.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,352 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 184 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,960 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,251 | 8.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,069 | 13.4 | Italian | 92 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 60.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,891 | 86.6 | Norwegian | 640 | 4.2 | |
| Percent employed | 85.0 | (X) | Polish | 98 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,839 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,129 | 39.8 | Russian | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 156 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 176 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,444 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,961 | 69.0 | Swedish | 146 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,456 | 30.9 | Swiss | 51 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,295 | 15.9 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,161 | 15.0 | United States or American | 941 | 6.1 | |
| Same state | 1,702 | 11.8 | Welsh | 50 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 459 | 3.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 27 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 611 | 4.0 | |
| 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)

