
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Geauga 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 | 90,895 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 24,286 | 100.0 | Native | 88,342 | 97.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,867 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 87,955 | 96.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,174 | 4.8 | State of residence | 71,092 | 78.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 12,739 | 52.5 | Different state | 16,863 | 18.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,145 | 21.2 | Born outside United States | 387 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,361 | 13.8 | Foreign born | 2,553 | 2.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 476 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,723 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 59,216 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 830 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,784 | 6.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,315 | 7.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 16,634 | 28.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,553 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 12,196 | 20.6 | Europe | 1,729 | 67.7 | |
| Associate degree | 3,492 | 5.9 | Asia | 377 | 14.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 11,796 | 19.9 | Africa | 61 | 2.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 6,999 | 11.8 | Oceania | 32 | 1.3 | |
| Latin America | 175 | 6.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.3 | (X) | Northern America | 179 | 7.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 31.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 84,836 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 69,665 | 100.0 | English only | 75,485 | 89.0 | |
| Never married | 14,631 | 21.0 | Language other than English | 9,351 | 11.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 45,281 | 65.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,937 | 4.6 | |
| Separated | 455 | 0.7 | Spanish | 860 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 3,969 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 241 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 3,244 | 4.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 7,876 | 9.3 | |
| Divorced | 5,329 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,534 | 4.2 | |
| Female | 2,968 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 156 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 62 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 90,895 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,120 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 111,565 | 122.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 272 | 24.3 | Arab | 158 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,809 | 3.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 197 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 65,158 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,653 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,247 | 12.7 | English | 13,020 | 14.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,071 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 288 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 24,326 | 26.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 22,571 | 100.0 | Greek | 355 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,178 | 5.2 | Hungarian | 4,507 | 5.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 51,180 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 13,949 | 15.3 | |
| With a disability | 6,446 | 12.6 | Italian | 9,778 | 10.8 | |
| Percent employed | 69.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 749 | 0.8 | |
| No disability | 44,734 | 87.4 | Norwegian | 497 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 79.8 | (X) | Polish | 6,805 | 7.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 10,333 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 40 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,802 | 36.8 | Russian | 1,739 | 1.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,679 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,547 | 2.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2,831 | 3.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 84,836 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 94 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 57,313 | 67.6 | Swedish | 1,114 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 27,260 | 32.1 | Swiss | 1,395 | 1.5 | |
| Same county | 11,112 | 13.1 | Ukrainian | 549 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 16,148 | 19.0 | United States or American | 4,701 | 5.2 | |
| Same state | 12,494 | 14.7 | Welsh | 1,232 | 1.4 | |
| Different state | 3,654 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 59 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 263 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 12,423 | 13.7 | |
| 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)

