DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ingham 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 | 279,320 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 102,939 | 100.0 | Native | 261,857 | 93.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,520 | 4.4 | Born in United States | 260,164 | 93.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,808 | 3.7 | State of residence | 204,528 | 73.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 30,590 | 29.7 | Different state | 55,636 | 19.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 14,779 | 14.4 | Born outside United States | 1,693 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 49,242 | 47.8 | Foreign born | 17,463 | 6.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 10,733 | 3.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 5,577 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 162,909 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 11,886 | 4.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,360 | 3.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 13,981 | 8.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 38,118 | 23.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 17,463 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 39,290 | 24.1 | Europe | 3,092 | 17.7 | |
| Associate degree | 12,470 | 7.7 | Asia | 8,885 | 50.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 30,151 | 18.5 | Africa | 1,321 | 7.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 23,539 | 14.4 | Oceania | 93 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 3,104 | 17.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.1 | (X) | Northern America | 968 | 5.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 33.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 261,790 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 224,770 | 100.0 | English only | 234,888 | 89.7 | |
| Never married | 85,439 | 38.0 | Language other than English | 26,902 | 10.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 101,587 | 45.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10,142 | 3.9 | |
| Separated | 2,715 | 1.2 | Spanish | 9,897 | 3.8 | |
| Widowed | 10,781 | 4.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,205 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 8,760 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 7,920 | 3.0 | |
| Divorced | 24,248 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,491 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 14,708 | 6.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6,886 | 2.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,746 | 1.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 279,320 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,409 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 303,045 | 108.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,351 | 39.6 | Arab | 2,413 | 0.9 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,956 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,315 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 213,786 | 100.0 | Dutch | 9,296 | 3.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 21,201 | 9.9 | English | 34,901 | 12.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 10,135 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4,233 | 1.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 60,655 | 21.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 71,815 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,303 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 6,455 | 9.0 | Hungarian | 1,871 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 162,762 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 31,684 | 11.3 | |
| With a disability | 26,126 | 16.1 | Italian | 10,143 | 3.6 | |
| Percent employed | 57.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 782 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 136,636 | 83.9 | Norwegian | 3,106 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 14,197 | 5.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 25,408 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 224 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 10,901 | 42.9 | Russian | 2,138 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,241 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 7,223 | 2.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 630 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 261,790 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,738 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 121,729 | 46.5 | Swedish | 4,882 | 1.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 131,932 | 50.4 | Swiss | 842 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 66,493 | 25.4 | Ukrainian | 1,067 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 65,439 | 25.0 | United States or American | 14,096 | 5.0 | |
| Same state | 48,877 | 18.7 | Welsh | 1,750 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 16,562 | 6.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 629 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 8,129 | 3.1 | Other ancestries | 74,595 | 26.7 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)
