
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Butler 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 | 332,807 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 95,720 | 100.0 | Native | 323,660 | 97.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 6,487 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 322,178 | 96.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,879 | 5.1 | State of residence | 226,077 | 67.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 39,484 | 41.2 | Different state | 96,101 | 28.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 18,858 | 19.7 | Born outside United States | 1,482 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 26,012 | 27.2 | Foreign born | 9,147 | 2.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 4,195 | 1.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,374 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 207,213 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4,773 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 9,311 | 4.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 25,391 | 12.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 69,581 | 33.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 9,147 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 41,525 | 20.0 | Europe | 2,119 | 23.2 | |
| Associate degree | 12,746 | 6.2 | Asia | 3,998 | 43.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 31,945 | 15.4 | Africa | 385 | 4.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 16,714 | 8.1 | Oceania | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 2,067 | 22.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.3 | (X) | Northern America | 568 | 6.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 309,892 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 261,042 | 100.0 | English only | 294,367 | 95.0 | |
| Never married | 67,007 | 25.7 | Language other than English | 15,525 | 5.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 150,139 | 57.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,265 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 3,629 | 1.4 | Spanish | 6,136 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 14,757 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,400 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 11,734 | 4.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 5,716 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 25,510 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,333 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 14,577 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,934 | 0.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,353 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 332,807 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 5,889 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 319,873 | 96.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,746 | 46.6 | Arab | 671 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,310 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 584 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 246,350 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5,308 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 31,794 | 12.9 | English | 34,779 | 10.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 8,206 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,134 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 88,546 | 26.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 82,205 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,277 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 6,298 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 1,867 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 191,157 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 43,613 | 13.1 | |
| With a disability | 30,549 | 16.0 | Italian | 13,524 | 4.1 | |
| Percent employed | 56.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 345 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 160,608 | 84.0 | Norwegian | 1,733 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 79.8 | (X) | Polish | 5,548 | 1.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 33,357 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 162 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 13,422 | 40.2 | Russian | 1,247 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,965 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 6,237 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 851 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 309,892 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 926 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 158,084 | 51.0 | Swedish | 2,172 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 148,475 | 47.9 | Swiss | 943 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 80,420 | 26.0 | Ukrainian | 605 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 68,055 | 22.0 | United States or American | 40,562 | 12.2 | |
| Same state | 41,600 | 13.4 | Welsh | 2,704 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 26,455 | 8.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 159 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 3,333 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 49,895 | 15.0 | |
| 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)

