
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lake 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 | 26,507 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,008 | 100.0 | Native | 26,080 | 98.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 466 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 25,875 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 321 | 4.6 | State of residence | 14,960 | 56.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,455 | 49.3 | Different state | 10,915 | 41.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,709 | 24.4 | Born outside United States | 205 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,057 | 15.1 | Foreign born | 427 | 1.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 99 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 261 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,971 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 166 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 700 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,973 | 11.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,389 | 31.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 427 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,122 | 24.3 | Europe | 148 | 34.7 | |
| Associate degree | 1,021 | 6.0 | Asia | 68 | 15.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,650 | 15.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,116 | 6.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 39 | 9.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.2 | (X) | Northern America | 172 | 40.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 24,749 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,562 | 100.0 | English only | 23,107 | 93.4 | |
| Never married | 4,891 | 23.8 | Language other than English | 1,642 | 6.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,697 | 56.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 271 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 276 | 1.3 | Spanish | 291 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,266 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 974 | 4.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 358 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 2,432 | 11.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 75 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,372 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 75 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 27 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 26,507 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 446 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 30,855 | 116.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 274 | 61.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 149 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 416 | 1.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,073 | 100.0 | Dutch | 549 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,405 | 17.9 | English | 2,817 | 10.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,162 | 4.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 160 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,218 | 23.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,645 | 100.0 | Greek | 24 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 432 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 60 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,194 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,345 | 12.6 | |
| With a disability | 2,874 | 20.2 | Italian | 657 | 2.5 | |
| Percent employed | 48.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 62 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 11,320 | 79.8 | Norwegian | 1,673 | 6.3 | |
| Percent employed | 74.3 | (X) | Polish | 225 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,667 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 22 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,435 | 39.1 | Russian | 185 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 766 | 2.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 774 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 27 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 24,749 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,334 | 53.9 | Swedish | 695 | 2.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,307 | 45.7 | Swiss | 168 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 5,060 | 20.4 | Ukrainian | 53 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 6,247 | 25.2 | United States or American | 1,239 | 4.7 | |
| Same state | 2,787 | 11.3 | Welsh | 240 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 3,460 | 14.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 108 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 9,157 | 34.5 | |
| 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)

