DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cook 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 | 5,376,741 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,491,276 | 100.0 | Native | 4,312,038 | 80.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 106,065 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 4,233,161 | 78.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 83,697 | 5.6 | State of residence | 3,310,715 | 61.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 639,856 | 42.9 | Different state | 922,446 | 17.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 301,872 | 20.2 | Born outside United States | 78,877 | 1.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 359,786 | 24.1 | Foreign born | 1,064,703 | 19.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 473,265 | 8.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 420,739 | 7.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,454,738 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 643,964 | 12.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 332,628 | 9.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 437,713 | 12.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 834,675 | 24.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,064,703 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 700,065 | 20.3 | Europe | 288,114 | 27.1 | |
| Associate degree | 181,015 | 5.2 | Asia | 231,877 | 21.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 595,677 | 17.2 | Africa | 18,499 | 1.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 372,965 | 10.8 | Oceania | 1,266 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 517,124 | 48.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.7 | (X) | Northern America | 7,823 | 0.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 28.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,991,310 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,202,682 | 100.0 | English only | 3,453,547 | 69.2 | |
| Never married | 1,453,647 | 34.6 | Language other than English | 1,537,763 | 30.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,981,879 | 47.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 762,426 | 15.3 | |
| Separated | 106,583 | 2.5 | Spanish | 879,996 | 17.6 | |
| Widowed | 301,398 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 471,410 | 9.4 | |
| Female | 246,214 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 439,325 | 8.8 | |
| Divorced | 359,175 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 195,391 | 3.9 | |
| Female | 216,189 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 158,034 | 3.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 75,913 | 1.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 5,376,741 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 154,253 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,694,049 | 105.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 58,833 | 38.1 | Arab | 35,224 | 0.7 | |
| Czech¹ | 67,690 | 1.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 18,990 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,982,574 | 100.0 | Dutch | 52,626 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 352,791 | 8.9 | English | 179,242 | 3.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 66,160 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 14,176 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 611,008 | 11.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,221,663 | 100.0 | Greek | 56,579 | 1.1 | |
| With a disability | 102,547 | 8.4 | Hungarian | 24,506 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,116,569 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 545,518 | 10.1 | |
| With a disability | 614,005 | 19.7 | Italian | 327,011 | 6.1 | |
| Percent employed | 55.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 44,066 | 0.8 | |
| No disability | 2,502,564 | 80.3 | Norwegian | 47,385 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 74.1 | (X) | Polish | 530,645 | 9.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 603,891 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2,417 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 257,006 | 42.6 | Russian | 73,339 | 1.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 31,999 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 40,572 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 18,335 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,991,310 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 51,121 | 1.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,844,915 | 57.0 | Swedish | 84,801 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,915,473 | 38.4 | Swiss | 8,421 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,543,822 | 30.9 | Ukrainian | 29,632 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 371,651 | 7.4 | United States or American | 97,964 | 1.8 | |
| Same state | 126,469 | 2.5 | Welsh | 12,942 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 245,182 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 21,032 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 230,922 | 4.6 | Other ancestries | 2,600,648 | 48.4 | |
| 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
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