
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Champaign 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 | 38,890 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,309 | 100.0 | Native | 38,606 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 627 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 38,468 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 605 | 6.5 | State of residence | 32,508 | 83.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,685 | 50.3 | Different state | 5,960 | 15.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,307 | 24.8 | Born outside United States | 138 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,085 | 11.7 | Foreign born | 284 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 110 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 113 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 25,644 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 171 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,281 | 5.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,254 | 12.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,330 | 48.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 284 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,716 | 18.4 | Europe | 125 | 44.0 | |
| Associate degree | 1,354 | 5.3 | Asia | 38 | 13.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,808 | 7.1 | Africa | 8 | 2.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 901 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 75 | 26.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.3 | (X) | Northern America | 38 | 13.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 36,332 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 30,496 | 100.0 | English only | 35,580 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 6,179 | 20.3 | Language other than English | 752 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,738 | 61.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 199 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 443 | 1.5 | Spanish | 328 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,093 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 127 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,792 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 364 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 3,043 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 64 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,683 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 58 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 38,890 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 509 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 32,229 | 82.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 263 | 51.7 | Arab | 29 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 24 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 28,702 | 100.0 | Dutch | 991 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,810 | 13.3 | English | 4,118 | 10.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 518 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 68 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,998 | 20.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,125 | 100.0 | Greek | 48 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 675 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 73 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 22,203 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,735 | 12.2 | |
| With a disability | 4,249 | 19.1 | Italian | 518 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 57.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 17,954 | 80.9 | Norwegian | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 81.3 | (X) | Polish | 331 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,554 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,918 | 42.1 | Russian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 597 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 758 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 23 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 36,332 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 22,024 | 60.6 | Swedish | 140 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,113 | 38.8 | Swiss | 135 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 7,517 | 20.7 | Ukrainian | 41 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 6,596 | 18.2 | United States or American | 6,829 | 17.6 | |
| Same state | 5,541 | 15.3 | Welsh | 399 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 1,055 | 2.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 195 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 3,742 | 9.6 | |
| 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)

