
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 | 11,411 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,796 | 100.0 | Native | 11,289 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 169 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 11,234 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 140 | 5.0 | State of residence | 8,756 | 76.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,408 | 50.4 | Different state | 2,478 | 21.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 708 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 55 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 371 | 13.3 | Foreign born | 122 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 43 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 49 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,635 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 73 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 422 | 5.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 989 | 13.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,065 | 40.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 122 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,663 | 21.8 | Europe | 20 | 16.4 | |
| Associate degree | 292 | 3.8 | Asia | 71 | 58.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 876 | 11.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 328 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 24 | 19.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.5 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 5.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,713 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,045 | 100.0 | English only | 10,382 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 1,689 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 331 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,514 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 98 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 113 | 1.2 | Spanish | 179 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 764 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 634 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 53 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 965 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 491 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 59 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 44 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,411 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 254 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,543 | 92.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 153 | 60.2 | Arab | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 233 | 2.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 33 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,515 | 100.0 | Dutch | 463 | 4.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,091 | 12.8 | English | 886 | 7.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 456 | 4.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 60 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,341 | 20.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,627 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 207 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,201 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,199 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,228 | 19.8 | Italian | 85 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 59.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,973 | 80.2 | Norwegian | 38 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 79.8 | (X) | Polish | 79 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,595 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 789 | 49.5 | Russian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 199 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 142 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 19 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,713 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,220 | 58.1 | Swedish | 71 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,470 | 41.7 | Swiss | 42 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 2,377 | 22.2 | Ukrainian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,093 | 19.5 | United States or American | 1,789 | 15.7 | |
| Same state | 1,645 | 15.4 | Welsh | 65 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 448 | 4.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 23 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 2,285 | 20.0 | |
| 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)

