
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 | 13,010 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,925 | 100.0 | Native | 12,780 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 119 | 4.1 | Born in United States | 12,739 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 186 | 6.4 | State of residence | 10,990 | 84.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,525 | 52.1 | Different state | 1,749 | 13.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 771 | 26.4 | Born outside United States | 41 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 324 | 11.1 | Foreign born | 230 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 178 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 70 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,489 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 160 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,725 | 20.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,612 | 19.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,426 | 40.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 230 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 957 | 11.3 | Europe | 8 | 3.5 | |
| Associate degree | 225 | 2.7 | Asia | 84 | 36.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 314 | 3.7 | Africa | 12 | 5.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 230 | 2.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 112 | 48.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 60.7 | (X) | Northern America | 14 | 6.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 6.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,177 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,339 | 100.0 | English only | 11,794 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 1,895 | 18.3 | Language other than English | 383 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,376 | 61.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 186 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 190 | 1.8 | Spanish | 214 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 883 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 129 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 757 | 7.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 81 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 995 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 467 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 76 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,010 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 186 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,796 | 67.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 126 | 67.7 | Arab | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 18 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,710 | 100.0 | Dutch | 118 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,104 | 11.4 | English | 1,096 | 8.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 63 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 636 | 4.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,944 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 270 | 9.2 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,417 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 932 | 7.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,743 | 23.5 | Italian | 65 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 42.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,674 | 76.5 | Norwegian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 79.0 | (X) | Polish | 34 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,573 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 790 | 50.2 | Russian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 71 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 216 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,177 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,841 | 64.4 | Swedish | 45 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,200 | 34.5 | Swiss | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,442 | 20.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,758 | 14.4 | United States or American | 4,220 | 32.4 | |
| Same state | 1,333 | 10.9 | Welsh | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 425 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 136 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 1,203 | 9.2 | |
| 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)

