DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: St. Charles 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 | 283,883 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 82,278 | 100.0 | Native | 278,042 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 6,301 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 276,234 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,424 | 5.4 | State of residence | 199,854 | 70.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 38,327 | 46.6 | Different state | 76,380 | 26.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 17,481 | 21.2 | Born outside United States | 1,808 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 15,745 | 19.1 | Foreign born | 5,841 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,240 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2,921 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 178,498 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,920 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,412 | 3.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 12,979 | 7.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 52,862 | 29.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 5,841 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 46,476 | 26.0 | Europe | 2,190 | 37.5 | |
| Associate degree | 12,763 | 7.2 | Asia | 1,943 | 33.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 33,022 | 18.5 | Africa | 154 | 2.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 13,984 | 7.8 | Oceania | 85 | 1.5 | |
| Latin America | 1,146 | 19.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 89.1 | (X) | Northern America | 323 | 5.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 26.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 262,259 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 215,084 | 100.0 | English only | 251,800 | 96.0 | |
| Never married | 47,594 | 22.1 | Language other than English | 10,459 | 4.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 135,752 | 63.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,444 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 2,356 | 1.1 | Spanish | 4,600 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 9,987 | 4.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,652 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 8,299 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 4,320 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 19,395 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,145 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 10,944 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,284 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 596 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 283,883 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,731 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 319,227 | 112.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,510 | 40.5 | Arab | 603 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,985 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 926 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 201,575 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5,687 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 28,278 | 14.0 | English | 29,552 | 10.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 14,477 | 5.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,493 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 109,945 | 38.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 70,729 | 100.0 | Greek | 967 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 5,031 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 944 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 166,077 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 49,688 | 17.5 | |
| With a disability | 19,351 | 11.7 | Italian | 17,011 | 6.0 | |
| Percent employed | 66.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 512 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 146,726 | 88.3 | Norwegian | 2,778 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 83.7 | (X) | Polish | 9,365 | 3.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 23,846 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 191 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 8,819 | 37.0 | Russian | 1,102 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,544 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 4,326 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 376 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 262,259 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 387 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 133,516 | 50.9 | Swedish | 3,086 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 126,439 | 48.2 | Swiss | 1,171 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 59,468 | 22.7 | Ukrainian | 300 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 66,971 | 25.5 | United States or American | 19,829 | 7.0 | |
| Same state | 44,281 | 16.9 | Welsh | 1,898 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 22,690 | 8.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 88 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,304 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 35,996 | 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. | ||||||
- 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)
