
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 | 31,214 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,373 | 100.0 | Native | 31,064 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 318 | 5.0 | Born in United States | 30,955 | 99.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 412 | 6.5 | State of residence | 22,612 | 72.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,264 | 51.2 | Different state | 8,343 | 26.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,447 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 109 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 932 | 14.6 | Foreign born | 150 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 77 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 58 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 21,611 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 92 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,265 | 15.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,697 | 21.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,107 | 32.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 150 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,769 | 17.4 | Europe | 6 | 4.0 | |
| Associate degree | 1,054 | 4.9 | Asia | 53 | 35.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,057 | 4.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 662 | 3.1 | Oceania | 6 | 4.0 | |
| Latin America | 72 | 48.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.2 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 8.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 29,360 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 25,403 | 100.0 | English only | 28,654 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 3,901 | 15.4 | Language other than English | 706 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,898 | 62.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 214 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 391 | 1.5 | Spanish | 473 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,236 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 132 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,798 | 7.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 52 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 2,977 | 11.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,490 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 170 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 31,214 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 632 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,485 | 68.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 330 | 52.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,191 | 100.0 | Dutch | 290 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,866 | 11.8 | English | 2,082 | 6.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 306 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 16 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,190 | 3.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,270 | 100.0 | Greek | 23 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 431 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 17,619 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,686 | 8.6 | |
| With a disability | 4,317 | 24.5 | Italian | 194 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 40.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 13,302 | 75.5 | Norwegian | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 73.7 | (X) | Polish | 116 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,604 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,635 | 57.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 332 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 306 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 29,360 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,170 | 61.9 | Swedish | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,997 | 37.5 | Swiss | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 6,649 | 22.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,348 | 14.8 | United States or American | 9,646 | 30.9 | |
| Same state | 2,796 | 9.5 | Welsh | 50 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,552 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 193 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 4,120 | 13.2 | |
| 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)

