
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: St. Clair 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 | 9,652 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,941 | 100.0 | Native | 9,587 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 63 | 3.2 | Born in United States | 9,570 | 99.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 109 | 5.6 | State of residence | 7,031 | 72.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,126 | 58.0 | Different state | 2,539 | 26.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 503 | 25.9 | Born outside United States | 17 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 140 | 7.2 | Foreign born | 65 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 56 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,876 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 738 | 10.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,115 | 16.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,141 | 45.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 65 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,045 | 15.2 | Europe | 24 | 36.9 | |
| Associate degree | 218 | 3.2 | Asia | 21 | 32.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 366 | 5.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 253 | 3.7 | Oceania | 8 | 12.3 | |
| Latin America | 5 | 7.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.1 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 10.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,138 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,854 | 100.0 | English only | 8,948 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 1,225 | 15.6 | Language other than English | 190 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,832 | 61.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.3 | |
| Separated | 105 | 1.3 | Spanish | 122 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 822 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 668 | 8.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 56 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 870 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 390 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,652 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 187 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,527 | 78.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 114 | 61.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 39 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 25 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,417 | 100.0 | Dutch | 202 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,392 | 18.8 | English | 884 | 9.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 242 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 25 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,538 | 15.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,944 | 100.0 | Greek | 13 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 137 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,104 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,025 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,124 | 22.0 | Italian | 147 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 34.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,980 | 78.0 | Norwegian | 55 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 75.5 | (X) | Polish | 34 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,917 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 987 | 51.5 | Russian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 177 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 176 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,138 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,277 | 57.7 | Swedish | 97 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,850 | 42.1 | Swiss | 66 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 1,349 | 14.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,501 | 27.4 | United States or American | 1,672 | 17.3 | |
| Same state | 1,770 | 19.4 | Welsh | 28 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 731 | 8.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 11 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 1,043 | 10.8 | |
| 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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