
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Addison 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 | 35,974 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,568 | 100.0 | Native | 34,732 | 96.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 552 | 5.2 | Born in United States | 34,450 | 95.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 518 | 4.9 | State of residence | 20,867 | 58.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,208 | 39.8 | Different state | 13,583 | 37.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,164 | 20.5 | Born outside United States | 282 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,126 | 29.6 | Foreign born | 1,242 | 3.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 491 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 610 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,468 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 632 | 1.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,190 | 5.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,867 | 8.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,592 | 33.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,242 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,550 | 15.8 | Europe | 560 | 45.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,575 | 7.0 | Asia | 226 | 18.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,011 | 17.9 | Africa | 44 | 3.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,683 | 11.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 68 | 5.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.4 | (X) | Northern America | 344 | 27.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 29.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 33,909 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 28,732 | 100.0 | English only | 32,177 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 7,592 | 26.4 | Language other than English | 1,732 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 16,411 | 57.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 409 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 263 | 0.9 | Spanish | 409 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,592 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 70 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,299 | 4.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,174 | 3.5 | |
| Divorced | 2,874 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 320 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,513 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 103 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 35,974 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 302 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 41,743 | 116.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 96 | 31.8 | Arab | 92 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 140 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 151 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 27,042 | 100.0 | Dutch | 855 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,363 | 12.4 | English | 6,859 | 19.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,917 | 13.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,664 | 10.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,439 | 9.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,348 | 100.0 | Greek | 89 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 579 | 6.2 | Hungarian | 145 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 20,490 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,335 | 14.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,671 | 13.0 | Italian | 1,680 | 4.7 | |
| Percent employed | 55.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 106 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 17,819 | 87.0 | Norwegian | 316 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 84.5 | (X) | Polish | 919 | 2.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,936 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 116 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,613 | 41.0 | Russian | 404 | 1.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 852 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,774 | 4.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 43 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 33,909 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 20,438 | 60.3 | Swedish | 723 | 2.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 13,091 | 38.6 | Swiss | 95 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 6,212 | 18.3 | Ukrainian | 75 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 6,879 | 20.3 | United States or American | 3,766 | 10.5 | |
| Same state | 2,563 | 7.6 | Welsh | 465 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 4,316 | 12.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 51 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 380 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 4,629 | 12.9 | |
| 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)

