
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hamilton 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 | 845,303 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 233,939 | 100.0 | Native | 816,724 | 96.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 16,966 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 812,835 | 96.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 12,653 | 5.4 | State of residence | 605,960 | 71.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 102,678 | 43.9 | Different state | 206,875 | 24.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 48,442 | 20.7 | Born outside United States | 3,889 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 53,200 | 22.7 | Foreign born | 28,579 | 3.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 14,663 | 1.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 12,251 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 546,048 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 16,328 | 1.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 24,253 | 4.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 69,954 | 12.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 151,759 | 27.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 28,573 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 106,901 | 19.6 | Europe | 9,285 | 32.5 | |
| Associate degree | 33,969 | 6.2 | Asia | 10,992 | 38.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 101,046 | 18.5 | Africa | 2,875 | 10.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 58,166 | 10.7 | Oceania | 162 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 4,069 | 14.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.7 | (X) | Northern America | 1,190 | 4.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 29.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 788,968 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 663,860 | 100.0 | English only | 744,914 | 94.4 | |
| Never married | 207,564 | 31.3 | Language other than English | 44,054 | 5.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 324,500 | 48.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15,342 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 14,727 | 2.2 | Spanish | 13,426 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 49,106 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,020 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 40,563 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 19,212 | 2.4 | |
| Divorced | 67,963 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,840 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 39,930 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8,001 | 1.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,745 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 845,303 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 13,947 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 891,647 | 105.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6,733 | 48.3 | Arab | 3,417 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,046 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,101 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 626,936 | 100.0 | Dutch | 11,659 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 77,419 | 12.3 | English | 69,273 | 8.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 19,721 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,362 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 258,917 | 30.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 196,735 | 100.0 | Greek | 3,096 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 16,500 | 8.4 | Hungarian | 4,652 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 474,001 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 115,199 | 13.6 | |
| With a disability | 80,155 | 16.9 | Italian | 35,535 | 4.2 | |
| Percent employed | 55.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,327 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 393,846 | 83.1 | Norwegian | 3,288 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 80.0 | (X) | Polish | 11,209 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 107,052 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 435 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 42,427 | 39.6 | Russian | 5,843 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 10,845 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 12,786 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,511 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 788,968 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 10,073 | 1.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 437,427 | 55.4 | Swedish | 4,250 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 338,974 | 43.0 | Swiss | 3,013 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 247,979 | 31.4 | Ukrainian | 1,455 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 90,995 | 11.5 | United States or American | 54,057 | 6.4 | |
| Same state | 40,167 | 5.1 | Welsh | 5,908 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 50,828 | 6.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,197 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 12,567 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 237,472 | 28.1 | |
| 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)

