
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 | 227,511 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 56,308 | 100.0 | Native | 217,765 | 95.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,408 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 216,661 | 95.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,876 | 5.1 | State of residence | 173,722 | 76.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 25,890 | 46.0 | Different state | 42,939 | 18.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 13,052 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 1,104 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 10,082 | 17.9 | Foreign born | 9,746 | 4.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,685 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 5,365 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 156,177 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4,381 | 1.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,591 | 2.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 16,628 | 10.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 53,726 | 34.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 9,746 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 37,135 | 23.8 | Europe | 5,251 | 53.9 | |
| Associate degree | 10,452 | 6.7 | Asia | 1,856 | 19.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 22,871 | 14.6 | Africa | 66 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 10,774 | 6.9 | Oceania | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 1,982 | 20.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.4 | (X) | Northern America | 574 | 5.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 213,646 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 182,124 | 100.0 | English only | 199,368 | 93.3 | |
| Never married | 42,122 | 23.1 | Language other than English | 14,278 | 6.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 105,403 | 57.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,263 | 2.5 | |
| Separated | 1,891 | 1.0 | Spanish | 4,036 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 13,757 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,071 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 11,289 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 7,883 | 3.7 | |
| Divorced | 18,951 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,462 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 10,848 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,178 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 481 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 227,511 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,013 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 289,060 | 127.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,035 | 34.4 | Arab | 807 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 4,096 | 1.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 605 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 172,440 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,317 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 24,740 | 14.3 | English | 26,701 | 11.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 5,196 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,005 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 56,666 | 24.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 48,458 | 100.0 | Greek | 807 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,219 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 11,356 | 5.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 132,527 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 41,815 | 18.4 | |
| With a disability | 18,759 | 14.2 | Italian | 34,096 | 15.0 | |
| Percent employed | 62.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2,064 | 0.9 | |
| No disability | 113,768 | 85.8 | Norwegian | 1,040 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 83.4 | (X) | Polish | 17,488 | 7.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 30,585 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 167 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 11,621 | 38.0 | Russian | 2,051 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,268 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 4,959 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7,925 | 3.5 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 213,646 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 279 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 133,353 | 62.4 | Swedish | 2,531 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 77,655 | 36.3 | Swiss | 802 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 49,425 | 23.1 | Ukrainian | 1,481 | 0.7 | |
| Different county | 28,230 | 13.2 | United States or American | 11,055 | 4.9 | |
| Same state | 20,160 | 9.4 | Welsh | 2,913 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 8,070 | 3.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 54 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,638 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 43,516 | 19.1 | |
| 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)

