
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Marion 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 | 32,052 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,619 | 100.0 | Native | 31,520 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 610 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 31,431 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 432 | 5.0 | State of residence | 26,025 | 81.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,735 | 43.3 | Different state | 5,406 | 16.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,986 | 23.0 | Born outside United States | 89 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,856 | 21.5 | Foreign born | 532 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 148 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 348 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 20,684 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 184 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,541 | 7.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,772 | 8.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,390 | 40.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 532 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,704 | 17.9 | Europe | 220 | 41.4 | |
| Associate degree | 1,372 | 6.6 | Asia | 200 | 37.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,783 | 13.5 | Africa | 11 | 2.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,122 | 5.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 65 | 12.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.0 | (X) | Northern America | 36 | 6.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 30,084 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 25,402 | 100.0 | English only | 28,760 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 5,620 | 22.1 | Language other than English | 1,324 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,585 | 61.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 448 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 238 | 0.9 | Spanish | 566 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,930 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 196 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 1,624 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 508 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 2,029 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 80 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 993 | 3.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 237 | 0.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 172 | 0.6 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 32,052 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 270 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 32,000 | 99.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 135 | 50.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 391 | 1.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 333 | 1.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 23,892 | 100.0 | Dutch | 8,301 | 25.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,268 | 13.7 | English | 3,436 | 10.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 675 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 116 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,727 | 21.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,824 | 100.0 | Greek | 62 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 419 | 5.4 | Hungarian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 16,997 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,310 | 10.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,518 | 14.8 | Italian | 610 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 60.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 14,479 | 85.2 | Norwegian | 657 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 84.5 | (X) | Polish | 254 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,768 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,000 | 41.9 | Russian | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 444 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 447 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 10 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 30,084 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,906 | 56.2 | Swedish | 591 | 1.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 12,977 | 43.1 | Swiss | 76 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 6,365 | 21.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,612 | 22.0 | United States or American | 2,439 | 7.6 | |
| Same state | 4,470 | 14.9 | Welsh | 401 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 2,142 | 7.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 201 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 2,630 | 8.2 | |
| 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)

