
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stark 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 | 378,098 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 94,779 | 100.0 | Native | 371,424 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 7,059 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 369,927 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,671 | 4.9 | State of residence | 305,606 | 80.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 45,013 | 47.5 | Different state | 64,321 | 17.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 21,340 | 22.5 | Born outside United States | 1,497 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 16,696 | 17.6 | Foreign born | 6,674 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,799 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,148 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 252,971 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,526 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 10,447 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 31,465 | 12.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 104,333 | 41.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 6,674 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 47,919 | 18.9 | Europe | 3,644 | 54.6 | |
| Associate degree | 13,410 | 5.3 | Asia | 1,731 | 25.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 30,035 | 11.9 | Africa | 172 | 2.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 15,362 | 6.1 | Oceania | 30 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 803 | 12.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.4 | (X) | Northern America | 294 | 4.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 354,010 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 300,403 | 100.0 | English only | 338,958 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 71,360 | 23.8 | Language other than English | 15,052 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 170,022 | 56.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,382 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 3,625 | 1.2 | Spanish | 4,747 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 22,972 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,577 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 18,817 | 6.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 8,387 | 2.4 | |
| Divorced | 32,424 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,139 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 18,415 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,176 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 475 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 378,098 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 6,042 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 417,121 | 110.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,771 | 45.9 | Arab | 2,165 | 0.6 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,261 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 827 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 284,292 | 100.0 | Dutch | 8,126 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 40,385 | 14.2 | English | 37,429 | 9.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 14,479 | 3.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 777 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 115,208 | 30.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 83,523 | 100.0 | Greek | 4,419 | 1.2 | |
| With a disability | 5,971 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 6,290 | 1.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 212,038 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 51,821 | 13.7 | |
| With a disability | 35,784 | 16.9 | Italian | 36,117 | 9.6 | |
| Percent employed | 58.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 547 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 176,254 | 83.1 | Norwegian | 1,035 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 80.0 | (X) | Polish | 9,779 | 2.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 53,255 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 239 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 19,995 | 37.5 | Russian | 1,824 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,960 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 7,235 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4,522 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 354,010 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,740 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 218,938 | 61.8 | Swedish | 2,938 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 133,273 | 37.6 | Swiss | 7,034 | 1.9 | |
| Same county | 95,272 | 26.9 | Ukrainian | 1,441 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 38,001 | 10.7 | United States or American | 26,166 | 6.9 | |
| Same state | 23,605 | 6.7 | Welsh | 6,654 | 1.8 | |
| Different state | 14,396 | 4.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 196 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,799 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 59,892 | 15.8 | |
| 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)

