DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hancock 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 | 10,076 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,704 | 100.0 | Native | 10,045 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 219 | 8.1 | Born in United States | 10,023 | 99.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 171 | 6.3 | State of residence | 8,530 | 84.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,206 | 44.6 | Different state | 1,493 | 14.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 778 | 28.8 | Born outside United States | 22 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 330 | 12.2 | Foreign born | 31 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 18 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,618 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 960 | 14.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,539 | 23.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,281 | 34.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 31 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,037 | 15.7 | Europe | 14 | 45.2 | |
| Associate degree | 155 | 2.3 | Asia | 11 | 35.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 411 | 6.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 235 | 3.6 | Oceania | 4 | 12.9 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 62.2 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 6.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,505 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,094 | 100.0 | English only | 9,368 | 98.6 | |
| Never married | 2,513 | 31.0 | Language other than English | 137 | 1.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,002 | 49.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.3 | |
| Separated | 300 | 3.7 | Spanish | 101 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 786 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 667 | 8.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 25 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 493 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 238 | 2.9 | 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 | 10,076 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 365 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,450 | 73.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 147 | 40.3 | Arab | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,623 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 759 | 10.0 | English | 143 | 1.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 20 | 0.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 241 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,219 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 201 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,646 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 307 | 3.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,769 | 38.1 | Italian | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 59.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,877 | 61.9 | Norwegian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 59.7 | (X) | Polish | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,215 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 633 | 52.1 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 41 | 0.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 12 | 0.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,505 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 99 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,742 | 70.9 | Swedish | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,735 | 28.8 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,055 | 11.1 | Ukrainian | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 1,680 | 17.7 | United States or American | 436 | 4.3 | |
| Same state | 1,420 | 14.9 | Welsh | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 260 | 2.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 28 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 6,052 | 60.1 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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