
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hardin 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 | 94,174 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 25,768 | 100.0 | Native | 89,907 | 95.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,329 | 5.2 | Born in United States | 86,776 | 92.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,337 | 5.2 | State of residence | 52,024 | 55.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 12,188 | 47.3 | Different state | 34,752 | 36.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,035 | 23.4 | Born outside United States | 3,131 | 3.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,879 | 18.9 | Foreign born | 4,267 | 4.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,334 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2,405 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 58,358 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,862 | 2.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,897 | 6.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,426 | 11.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 20,021 | 34.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4,267 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 14,710 | 25.2 | Europe | 1,773 | 41.6 | |
| Associate degree | 4,337 | 7.4 | Asia | 1,543 | 36.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,194 | 8.9 | Africa | 44 | 1.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,773 | 6.5 | Oceania | 44 | 1.0 | |
| Latin America | 773 | 18.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.3 | (X) | Northern America | 90 | 2.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 87,416 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 72,875 | 100.0 | English only | 80,554 | 92.2 | |
| Never married | 15,959 | 21.9 | Language other than English | 6,862 | 7.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 43,710 | 60.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,143 | 2.5 | |
| Separated | 1,303 | 1.8 | Spanish | 2,259 | 2.6 | |
| Widowed | 3,873 | 5.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 677 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 3,189 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,812 | 3.2 | |
| Divorced | 8,030 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 561 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 4,486 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,653 | 1.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 852 | 1.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 94,174 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,561 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 83,444 | 88.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 823 | 52.7 | Arab | 76 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 217 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 345 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 62,457 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,123 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 13,566 | 21.7 | English | 8,095 | 8.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,778 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 579 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 12,104 | 12.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 22,301 | 100.0 | Greek | 240 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,762 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 143 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 49,436 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 9,861 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 10,609 | 21.5 | Italian | 1,872 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 54.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 77 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 38,827 | 78.5 | Norwegian | 602 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 76.9 | (X) | Polish | 1,258 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,634 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 48 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,122 | 47.7 | Russian | 167 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,178 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,354 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 31 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 87,416 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 648 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 42,435 | 48.5 | Swedish | 485 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 42,099 | 48.2 | Swiss | 134 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 20,541 | 23.5 | Ukrainian | 23 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 21,558 | 24.7 | United States or American | 17,568 | 18.7 | |
| Same state | 6,758 | 7.7 | Welsh | 356 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 14,800 | 16.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 227 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,882 | 3.3 | Other ancestries | 22,855 | 24.3 | |
| 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)

