
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Noble 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 | 14,058 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,540 | 100.0 | Native | 13,971 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 129 | 3.6 | Born in United States | 13,956 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 188 | 5.3 | State of residence | 12,024 | 85.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,541 | 43.5 | Different state | 1,932 | 13.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 884 | 25.0 | Born outside United States | 15 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 798 | 22.5 | Foreign born | 87 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 23 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 53 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,210 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 481 | 5.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,493 | 16.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,406 | 47.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 87 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,518 | 16.5 | Europe | 40 | 46.0 | |
| Associate degree | 569 | 6.2 | Asia | 16 | 18.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 537 | 5.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 206 | 2.2 | Oceania | 7 | 8.0 | |
| Latin America | 24 | 27.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.6 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,336 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,470 | 100.0 | English only | 12,754 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 3,388 | 29.5 | Language other than English | 582 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,993 | 52.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 196 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 164 | 1.4 | Spanish | 294 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 708 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 101 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 580 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 247 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,217 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 88 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 455 | 4.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,058 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 206 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,487 | 81.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 105 | 51.0 | Arab | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 89 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 14 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,860 | 100.0 | Dutch | 316 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,486 | 13.7 | English | 1,291 | 9.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 295 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 30 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,532 | 25.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,978 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 189 | 6.3 | Hungarian | 107 | 0.8 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,453 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,690 | 12.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,475 | 22.9 | Italian | 298 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 48.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,978 | 77.1 | Norwegian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.1 | (X) | Polish | 224 | 1.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,694 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 678 | 40.0 | Russian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 296 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 181 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 189 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,336 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 92 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,053 | 60.4 | Swedish | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,195 | 39.0 | Swiss | 84 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 1,803 | 13.5 | Ukrainian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,392 | 25.4 | United States or American | 1,124 | 8.0 | |
| Same state | 2,864 | 21.5 | Welsh | 121 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 528 | 4.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 88 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 1,401 | 10.0 | |
| 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)

