
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Henry 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 | 31,115 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,506 | 100.0 | Native | 30,803 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 406 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 30,671 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 459 | 7.1 | State of residence | 18,521 | 59.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,208 | 49.3 | Different state | 12,150 | 39.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,717 | 26.4 | Born outside United States | 132 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 716 | 11.0 | Foreign born | 312 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 129 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 131 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 21,791 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 181 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,569 | 11.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,863 | 17.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,728 | 40.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 312 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,474 | 15.9 | Europe | 112 | 35.9 | |
| Associate degree | 520 | 2.4 | Asia | 67 | 21.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,691 | 7.8 | Africa | 6 | 1.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 946 | 4.3 | Oceania | 9 | 2.9 | |
| Latin America | 100 | 32.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.5 | (X) | Northern America | 18 | 5.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 29,421 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 25,426 | 100.0 | English only | 28,594 | 97.2 | |
| Never married | 4,382 | 17.2 | Language other than English | 827 | 2.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,407 | 60.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 258 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 432 | 1.7 | Spanish | 391 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 2,263 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 162 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,893 | 7.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 374 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 2,942 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 62 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,531 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 56 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 31,115 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 608 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 25,722 | 82.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 369 | 60.7 | Arab | 29 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 88 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 50 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,160 | 100.0 | Dutch | 414 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,782 | 15.7 | English | 3,583 | 11.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 458 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 112 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,485 | 8.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,241 | 100.0 | Greek | 12 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 538 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 40 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 17,377 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,514 | 11.3 | |
| With a disability | 4,111 | 23.7 | Italian | 458 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 48.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 35 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 13,266 | 76.3 | Norwegian | 96 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 76.5 | (X) | Polish | 354 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,333 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,544 | 47.7 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,071 | 3.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 432 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 15 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 29,421 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 261 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,341 | 55.5 | Swedish | 106 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 13,010 | 44.2 | Swiss | 60 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 7,060 | 24.0 | Ukrainian | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,950 | 20.2 | United States or American | 6,658 | 21.4 | |
| Same state | 2,340 | 8.0 | Welsh | 81 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 3,610 | 12.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 70 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 5,292 | 17.0 | |
| 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)

