DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Henry 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 | 119,341 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 32,860 | 100.0 | Native | 115,296 | 96.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,759 | 8.4 | Born in United States | 114,051 | 95.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,114 | 6.4 | State of residence | 74,176 | 62.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 16,394 | 49.9 | Different state | 39,875 | 33.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,941 | 21.1 | Born outside United States | 1,245 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,652 | 14.2 | Foreign born | 4,045 | 3.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,296 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2,206 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 75,501 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,839 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,069 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,838 | 11.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 25,901 | 34.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4,045 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 17,907 | 23.7 | Europe | 768 | 19.0 | |
| Associate degree | 5,026 | 6.7 | Asia | 1,579 | 39.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 10,215 | 13.5 | Africa | 334 | 8.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 4,545 | 6.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,270 | 31.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.2 | (X) | Northern America | 94 | 2.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 109,726 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 89,743 | 100.0 | English only | 103,560 | 94.4 | |
| Never married | 17,540 | 19.5 | Language other than English | 6,166 | 5.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 58,423 | 65.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,720 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 1,123 | 1.3 | Spanish | 2,657 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 3,746 | 4.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 818 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 3,047 | 3.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,893 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 8,911 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 355 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 5,132 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,241 | 1.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 493 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 119,341 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,757 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 99,692 | 83.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 989 | 35.9 | Arab | 389 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 155 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 194 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 84,169 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,600 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 12,474 | 14.8 | English | 11,024 | 9.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,891 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 479 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 10,105 | 8.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 28,961 | 100.0 | Greek | 227 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,817 | 6.3 | Hungarian | 174 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 71,360 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 11,115 | 9.3 | |
| With a disability | 12,161 | 17.0 | Italian | 3,057 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 63.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 59,199 | 83.0 | Norwegian | 463 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 81.8 | (X) | Polish | 1,218 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,635 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 101 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,803 | 44.0 | Russian | 238 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,527 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,597 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 67 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 109,726 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 773 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 49,548 | 45.2 | Swedish | 514 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 58,860 | 53.6 | Swiss | 187 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 16,623 | 15.1 | Ukrainian | 61 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 42,237 | 38.5 | United States or American | 20,673 | 17.3 | |
| Same state | 31,082 | 28.3 | Welsh | 572 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 11,155 | 10.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 529 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,318 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 28,753 | 24.1 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)
