
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Marion 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 | 35,466 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,764 | 100.0 | Native | 34,954 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 706 | 7.2 | Born in United States | 34,878 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 637 | 6.5 | State of residence | 29,615 | 83.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,601 | 47.1 | Different state | 5,263 | 14.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,586 | 26.5 | Born outside United States | 76 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,234 | 12.6 | Foreign born | 512 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 349 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 107 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,224 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 405 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,650 | 11.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,467 | 20.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,557 | 38.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 512 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,322 | 14.9 | Europe | 25 | 4.9 | |
| Associate degree | 971 | 4.4 | Asia | 58 | 11.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,531 | 6.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 726 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 427 | 83.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.0 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 0.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 33,033 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 27,407 | 100.0 | English only | 31,758 | 96.1 | |
| Never married | 8,205 | 29.9 | Language other than English | 1,275 | 3.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,619 | 46.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 594 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 1,497 | 5.5 | Spanish | 945 | 2.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,577 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 491 | 1.5 | |
| Female | 2,196 | 8.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 274 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 2,509 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 89 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,529 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 35,466 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,551 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 28,270 | 79.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 798 | 51.5 | Arab | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 25,639 | 100.0 | Dutch | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,802 | 10.9 | English | 1,198 | 3.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 232 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 60 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 588 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,850 | 100.0 | Greek | 44 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 849 | 9.6 | Hungarian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 19,654 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 862 | 2.4 | |
| With a disability | 5,601 | 28.5 | Italian | 170 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 49.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 14,053 | 71.5 | Norwegian | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 70.7 | (X) | Polish | 60 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,193 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,183 | 52.1 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 390 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 267 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 33,033 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 732 | 2.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 21,017 | 63.6 | Swedish | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,601 | 35.1 | Swiss | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 7,976 | 24.1 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,625 | 11.0 | United States or American | 5,492 | 15.5 | |
| Same state | 2,031 | 6.1 | Welsh | 89 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,594 | 4.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 415 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 17,989 | 50.7 | |
| 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)

