
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hamilton 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 | 16,438 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,022 | 100.0 | Native | 16,089 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 383 | 9.5 | Born in United States | 16,067 | 97.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 222 | 5.5 | State of residence | 13,578 | 82.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,878 | 46.7 | Different state | 2,489 | 15.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,000 | 24.9 | Born outside United States | 22 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 539 | 13.4 | Foreign born | 349 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 115 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 97 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,094 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 252 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 520 | 4.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 885 | 8.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,481 | 40.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 349 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,280 | 20.6 | Europe | 88 | 25.2 | |
| Associate degree | 984 | 8.9 | Asia | 201 | 57.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,442 | 13.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 502 | 4.5 | Oceania | 8 | 2.3 | |
| Latin America | 46 | 13.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.3 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 1.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,380 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,984 | 100.0 | English only | 14,697 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 2,542 | 19.6 | Language other than English | 683 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,105 | 62.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 305 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 121 | 0.9 | Spanish | 286 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,010 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 104 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 867 | 6.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 178 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,206 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 91 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 675 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 217 | 1.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 110 | 0.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,438 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 155 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,527 | 106.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 89 | 57.4 | Arab | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 171 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 462 | 2.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,251 | 100.0 | Dutch | 490 | 3.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,609 | 13.1 | English | 1,456 | 8.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 529 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 21 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,411 | 32.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,678 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 207 | 5.6 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,742 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,923 | 11.7 | |
| With a disability | 1,365 | 15.6 | Italian | 276 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 64.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,377 | 84.4 | Norwegian | 2,928 | 17.8 | |
| Percent employed | 88.3 | (X) | Polish | 189 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,764 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 989 | 35.8 | Russian | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 153 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 188 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 27 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,380 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,623 | 62.6 | Swedish | 1,018 | 6.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,654 | 36.8 | Swiss | 57 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 3,021 | 19.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,633 | 17.1 | United States or American | 882 | 5.4 | |
| Same state | 1,700 | 11.1 | Welsh | 50 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 933 | 6.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 103 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 1,234 | 7.5 | |
| 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)

