DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Wayne 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 | 111,564 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 29,064 | 100.0 | Native | 109,679 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,696 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 109,157 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,531 | 5.3 | State of residence | 88,734 | 79.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 14,104 | 48.5 | Different state | 20,423 | 18.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,450 | 22.2 | Born outside United States | 522 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 5,283 | 18.2 | Foreign born | 1,885 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 961 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 756 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 69,953 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,129 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,756 | 8.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,203 | 11.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 29,386 | 42.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,885 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 11,224 | 16.0 | Europe | 697 | 37.0 | |
| Associate degree | 3,371 | 4.8 | Asia | 641 | 34.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 8,104 | 11.6 | Africa | 68 | 3.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,909 | 5.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 331 | 17.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.0 | (X) | Northern America | 148 | 7.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 103,735 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 86,337 | 100.0 | English only | 94,390 | 91.0 | |
| Never married | 20,464 | 23.7 | Language other than English | 9,345 | 9.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 52,318 | 60.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,900 | 3.8 | |
| Separated | 934 | 1.1 | Spanish | 1,210 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 4,922 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 431 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 4,120 | 4.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 7,627 | 7.4 | |
| Divorced | 7,699 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,224 | 3.1 | |
| Female | 4,211 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 314 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 198 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 111,564 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,434 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 108,772 | 97.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 571 | 39.8 | Arab | 214 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 535 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 118 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 80,915 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,683 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 9,858 | 12.2 | English | 10,676 | 9.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,474 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 350 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 33,367 | 29.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 28,000 | 100.0 | Greek | 419 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,650 | 5.9 | Hungarian | 1,246 | 1.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 61,783 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 12,760 | 11.4 | |
| With a disability | 9,901 | 16.0 | Italian | 4,224 | 3.8 | |
| Percent employed | 57.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 106 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 51,882 | 84.0 | Norwegian | 360 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 82.1 | (X) | Polish | 2,083 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 12,643 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,769 | 37.7 | Russian | 439 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,703 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,187 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 605 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 103,735 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 196 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 62,303 | 60.1 | Swedish | 816 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 40,541 | 39.1 | Swiss | 6,191 | 5.5 | |
| Same county | 25,176 | 24.3 | Ukrainian | 92 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 15,365 | 14.8 | United States or American | 11,052 | 9.9 | |
| Same state | 10,769 | 10.4 | Welsh | 1,101 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 4,596 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 28 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 891 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 11,742 | 10.5 | |
| 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)
