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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 18,212 100.0
      enrolled in school 4,229 100.0   Native 17,987 98.8
Nursery school, preschool 229 5.4       Born in United States 17,970 98.7
Kindergarten 211 5.0           State of residence 16,521 90.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,224 52.6           Different state 1,449 8.0
High school (grades 9-12) 1,103 26.1       Born outside United States 17 0.1
College or graduate school 462 10.9   Foreign born 225 1.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 134 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 113 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 11,772 100.0       Not a citizen 112 0.6
Less than 9th grade 1,787 15.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,685 14.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 5,167 43.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 225 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,473 12.5   Europe 33 14.7
Associate degree 592 5.0   Asia 86 38.2
Bachelor's degree 598 5.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 470 4.0   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 88 39.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 70.5 (X)   Northern America 18 8.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 9.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 17,011 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 14,434 100.0   English only 16,596 97.6
Never married 3,745 25.9   Language other than English 415 2.4
Now married, except separated 7,817 54.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 188 1.1
Separated 271 1.9   Spanish 242 1.4
Widowed 1,186 8.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 122 0.7
 Female 957 6.6   Other Indo-European languages 81 0.5
Divorced 1,415 9.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 19 0.1
 Female 663 4.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 63 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 47 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 18,212 100.0
           under 18 years 294 100.0     Total ancestries reported 13,512 74.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 133 45.2   Arab 55 0.3
        Czech¹ 18 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 13,625 100.0   Dutch 80 0.4
Civilian veterans 1,359 10.0   English 1,621 8.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 183 1.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 12 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,000 5.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 4,133 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 391 9.5   Hungarian 37 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 9,628 100.0   Irish¹ 2,023 11.1
With a disability 2,667 27.7   Italian 83 0.5
 Percent employed 45.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 6,961 72.3   Norwegian 16 0.1
 Percent employed 79.2 (X)   Polish 81 0.4
     Population 65 years and over 2,121 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 1,065 50.2   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 122 0.7
        Scottish 118 0.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 9 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 17,011 100.0   Subsaharan African 44 0.2
Same house in 1995 10,719 63.0   Swedish 10 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 6,095 35.8   Swiss 20 0.1
 Same county 3,578 21.0   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 2,517 14.8   United States or American 5,631 30.9
  Same state 1,989 11.7   Welsh 33 0.2
  Different state 528 3.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 197 1.2   Other ancestries 2,316 12.7
 
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.
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