
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 | 10,941 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,167 | 100.0 | Native | 10,848 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 57 | 2.6 | Born in United States | 10,798 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 105 | 4.8 | State of residence | 7,410 | 67.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,176 | 54.3 | Different state | 3,388 | 31.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 591 | 27.3 | Born outside United States | 50 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 238 | 11.0 | Foreign born | 93 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 47 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 44 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,792 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 49 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 708 | 9.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,827 | 23.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,581 | 33.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 93 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,739 | 22.3 | Europe | 30 | 32.3 | |
| Associate degree | 275 | 3.5 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 429 | 5.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 233 | 3.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 63 | 67.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.5 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,335 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,940 | 100.0 | English only | 9,962 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 1,563 | 17.5 | Language other than English | 373 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,987 | 55.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 105 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 236 | 2.6 | Spanish | 253 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 937 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 84 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 725 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 120 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,217 | 13.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 629 | 7.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,941 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 324 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,772 | 80.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 208 | 64.2 | Arab | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 27 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 49 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,493 | 100.0 | Dutch | 170 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,628 | 19.2 | English | 657 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 292 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 44 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 951 | 8.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,168 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 198 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,025 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 854 | 7.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,803 | 29.9 | Italian | 170 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 40.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,222 | 70.1 | Norwegian | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 67.6 | (X) | Polish | 56 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,053 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,164 | 56.7 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 130 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 140 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,335 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,204 | 60.0 | Swedish | 48 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,073 | 39.4 | Swiss | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,182 | 11.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,891 | 28.0 | United States or American | 1,496 | 13.7 | |
| Same state | 2,044 | 19.8 | Welsh | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 847 | 8.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 38 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 58 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 3,562 | 32.6 | |
| 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)

