DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Washtenaw 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 | 322,895 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 117,309 | 100.0 | Native | 289,731 | 89.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,867 | 5.0 | Born in United States | 286,761 | 88.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,878 | 3.3 | State of residence | 194,674 | 60.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 32,570 | 27.8 | Different state | 92,087 | 28.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 14,962 | 12.8 | Born outside United States | 2,970 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 60,032 | 51.2 | Foreign born | 33,164 | 10.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 18,914 | 5.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 10,713 | 3.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 197,414 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 22,451 | 7.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,673 | 2.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 12,043 | 6.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 33,752 | 17.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 33,162 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 40,063 | 20.3 | Europe | 7,767 | 23.4 | |
| Associate degree | 11,857 | 6.0 | Asia | 17,357 | 52.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 48,034 | 24.3 | Africa | 1,740 | 5.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 46,992 | 23.8 | Oceania | 145 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 3,837 | 11.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 91.5 | (X) | Northern America | 2,316 | 7.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 48.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 302,785 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 262,816 | 100.0 | English only | 262,763 | 86.8 | |
| Never married | 101,076 | 38.5 | Language other than English | 40,022 | 13.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 125,674 | 47.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13,523 | 4.5 | |
| Separated | 2,670 | 1.0 | Spanish | 8,017 | 2.6 | |
| Widowed | 10,528 | 4.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,920 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 8,551 | 3.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 14,215 | 4.7 | |
| Divorced | 22,868 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,430 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 13,068 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 13,221 | 4.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,069 | 2.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 322,895 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,573 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 369,094 | 114.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,453 | 40.7 | Arab | 4,257 | 1.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,485 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,873 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 251,910 | 100.0 | Dutch | 7,235 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 21,738 | 8.6 | English | 38,784 | 12.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 12,389 | 3.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4,246 | 1.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 68,320 | 21.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 76,100 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,300 | 0.7 | |
| With a disability | 5,421 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 3,977 | 1.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 196,798 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 37,278 | 11.5 | |
| With a disability | 25,417 | 12.9 | Italian | 14,097 | 4.4 | |
| Percent employed | 63.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,153 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 171,381 | 87.1 | Norwegian | 3,789 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 79.6 | (X) | Polish | 20,937 | 6.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 24,592 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 265 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 9,064 | 36.9 | Russian | 4,982 | 1.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,189 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 9,916 | 3.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 907 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 302,785 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,599 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 130,068 | 43.0 | Swedish | 5,218 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 158,341 | 52.3 | Swiss | 1,722 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 69,146 | 22.8 | Ukrainian | 2,072 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 89,195 | 29.5 | United States or American | 13,471 | 4.2 | |
| Same state | 53,731 | 17.7 | Welsh | 2,585 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 35,464 | 11.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,105 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 14,376 | 4.7 | Other ancestries | 95,943 | 29.7 | |
| 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
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