
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hardin 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 | 48,073 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 12,456 | 100.0 | Native | 47,469 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 826 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 47,277 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 762 | 6.1 | State of residence | 38,576 | 80.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,057 | 48.6 | Different state | 8,701 | 18.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,393 | 27.2 | Born outside United States | 192 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,418 | 11.4 | Foreign born | 604 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 135 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 325 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 30,747 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 279 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,008 | 6.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,310 | 14.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,380 | 40.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 604 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,451 | 21.0 | Europe | 150 | 24.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,599 | 5.2 | Asia | 199 | 32.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,972 | 9.7 | Africa | 6 | 1.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,027 | 3.3 | Oceania | 8 | 1.3 | |
| Latin America | 192 | 31.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.5 | (X) | Northern America | 49 | 8.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 44,778 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 37,293 | 100.0 | English only | 43,244 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 6,905 | 18.5 | Language other than English | 1,534 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,348 | 62.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 361 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 624 | 1.7 | Spanish | 808 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 2,601 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 205 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,158 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 572 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 3,815 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 101 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 2,025 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 121 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 55 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 48,073 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 865 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 39,948 | 83.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 570 | 65.9 | Arab | 134 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 126 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 83 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 34,746 | 100.0 | Dutch | 604 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,142 | 14.8 | English | 3,518 | 7.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,181 | 6.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,016 | 2.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,299 | 8.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 11,941 | 100.0 | Greek | 118 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 966 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 22 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 26,860 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,183 | 10.8 | |
| With a disability | 5,185 | 19.3 | Italian | 1,025 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 53.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 21,675 | 80.7 | Norwegian | 207 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 73.3 | (X) | Polish | 293 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,557 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 35 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,537 | 45.7 | Russian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 940 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 569 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 44,778 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 100 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 27,814 | 62.1 | Swedish | 192 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,829 | 37.6 | Swiss | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 8,903 | 19.9 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 7,926 | 17.7 | United States or American | 9,130 | 19.0 | |
| Same state | 6,268 | 14.0 | Welsh | 122 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,658 | 3.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 135 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 8,957 | 18.6 | |
| 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)

