
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Miami 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 | 28,351 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,575 | 100.0 | Native | 28,189 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 651 | 8.6 | Born in United States | 28,085 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 390 | 5.1 | State of residence | 16,724 | 59.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,673 | 48.5 | Different state | 11,361 | 40.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,023 | 26.7 | Born outside United States | 104 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 838 | 11.1 | Foreign born | 162 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 39 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 89 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 18,444 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 73 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 757 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,548 | 8.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,766 | 36.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 162 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,703 | 25.5 | Europe | 67 | 41.4 | |
| Associate degree | 1,100 | 6.0 | Asia | 37 | 22.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,456 | 13.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,114 | 6.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 58 | 35.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.5 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 26,442 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 21,916 | 100.0 | English only | 25,799 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 4,180 | 19.1 | Language other than English | 643 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 14,056 | 64.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 214 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 242 | 1.1 | Spanish | 400 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,357 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 116 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,115 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 187 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 2,081 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 75 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,107 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 56 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 28,351 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 385 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 27,907 | 98.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 167 | 43.4 | Arab | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 142 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 94 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 20,426 | 100.0 | Dutch | 863 | 3.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,800 | 13.7 | English | 3,355 | 11.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 711 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 135 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,095 | 28.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,903 | 100.0 | Greek | 19 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 504 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 72 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 15,804 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,113 | 14.5 | |
| With a disability | 2,682 | 17.0 | Italian | 487 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 61.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 13,122 | 83.0 | Norwegian | 274 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 84.0 | (X) | Polish | 282 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,104 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 14 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,275 | 41.1 | Russian | 60 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 699 | 2.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 580 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 18 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 26,442 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,727 | 55.7 | Swedish | 481 | 1.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,624 | 44.0 | Swiss | 75 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 4,450 | 16.8 | Ukrainian | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 7,174 | 27.1 | United States or American | 3,526 | 12.4 | |
| Same state | 4,851 | 18.3 | Welsh | 233 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 2,323 | 8.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 91 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 3,509 | 12.4 | |
| 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)

