
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lake 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 | 210,528 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 40,624 | 100.0 | Native | 199,708 | 94.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,753 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 196,836 | 93.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,543 | 6.3 | State of residence | 70,344 | 33.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 19,990 | 49.2 | Different state | 126,492 | 60.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 9,834 | 24.2 | Born outside United States | 2,872 | 1.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 5,504 | 13.5 | Foreign born | 10,820 | 5.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,914 | 1.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 5,084 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 155,572 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 5,736 | 2.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 8,889 | 5.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 22,593 | 14.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 53,339 | 34.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 10,820 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 35,744 | 23.0 | Europe | 2,779 | 25.7 | |
| Associate degree | 9,196 | 5.9 | Asia | 1,209 | 11.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 17,509 | 11.3 | Africa | 253 | 2.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 8,302 | 5.3 | Oceania | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 5,479 | 50.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.8 | (X) | Northern America | 1,064 | 9.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 199,560 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 174,738 | 100.0 | English only | 182,724 | 91.6 | |
| Never married | 27,762 | 15.9 | Language other than English | 16,836 | 8.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 110,140 | 63.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,914 | 3.0 | |
| Separated | 2,689 | 1.5 | Spanish | 11,262 | 5.6 | |
| Widowed | 17,018 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,517 | 2.3 | |
| Female | 13,478 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 4,224 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 17,129 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 899 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 9,148 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 852 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 344 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 210,528 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,847 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 214,646 | 102.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,729 | 44.9 | Arab | 565 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,143 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,006 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 167,709 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4,476 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 35,534 | 21.2 | English | 30,098 | 14.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 8,175 | 3.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,375 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 35,195 | 16.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 37,148 | 100.0 | Greek | 554 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 3,738 | 10.1 | Hungarian | 1,076 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 104,974 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 25,718 | 12.2 | |
| With a disability | 25,604 | 24.4 | Italian | 10,661 | 5.1 | |
| Percent employed | 58.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 445 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 79,370 | 75.6 | Norwegian | 1,855 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 73.1 | (X) | Polish | 5,724 | 2.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 54,151 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 532 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 20,132 | 37.2 | Russian | 1,041 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,196 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,567 | 2.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 634 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 199,560 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,024 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 98,871 | 49.5 | Swedish | 3,011 | 1.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 97,666 | 48.9 | Swiss | 660 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 36,558 | 18.3 | Ukrainian | 418 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 61,108 | 30.6 | United States or American | 23,028 | 10.9 | |
| Same state | 31,828 | 15.9 | Welsh | 1,924 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 29,280 | 14.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 974 | 0.5 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 3,023 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 42,571 | 20.2 | |
| 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)

