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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Piatt 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 16,365 100.0
      enrolled in school 4,303 100.0   Native 16,266 99.4
Nursery school, preschool 419 9.7       Born in United States 16,230 99.2
Kindergarten 224 5.2           State of residence 13,277 81.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,885 43.8           Different state 2,953 18.0
High school (grades 9-12) 1,047 24.3       Born outside United States 36 0.2
College or graduate school 728 16.9   Foreign born 99 0.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 46 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 49 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 11,118 100.0       Not a citizen 50 0.3
Less than 9th grade 434 3.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 826 7.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 4,133 37.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 99 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,604 23.4   Europe 21 21.2
Associate degree 781 7.0   Asia 57 57.6
Bachelor's degree 1,491 13.4   Africa 5 5.1
Graduate or professional degree 849 7.6   Oceania 9 9.1
        Latin America 2 2.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 88.7 (X)   Northern America 5 5.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 21.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 15,357 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 13,013 100.0   English only 15,013 97.8
Never married 2,523 19.4   Language other than English 344 2.2
Now married, except separated 8,228 63.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 91 0.6
Separated 110 0.8   Spanish 201 1.3
Widowed 925 7.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 59 0.4
 Female 767 5.9   Other Indo-European languages 93 0.6
Divorced 1,227 9.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 29 0.2
 Female 703 5.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 50 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 3 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 16,365 100.0
           under 18 years 132 100.0     Total ancestries reported 14,042 85.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 78 59.1   Arab 8 0.0
        Czech¹ 45 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 56 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 12,228 100.0   Dutch 522 3.2
Civilian veterans 1,864 15.2   English 2,126 13.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 348 2.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 50 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 4,147 25.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 3,737 100.0   Greek 40 0.2
With a disability 260 7.0   Hungarian 14 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 9,068 100.0   Irish¹ 2,056 12.6
With a disability 1,011 11.1   Italian 293 1.8
 Percent employed 61.8 (X)   Lithuanian 47 0.3
No disability 8,057 88.9   Norwegian 183 1.1
 Percent employed 83.8 (X)   Polish 259 1.6
     Population 65 years and over 2,377 100.0   Portuguese 4 0.0
With a disability 941 39.6   Russian 16 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 283 1.7
        Scottish 298 1.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 8 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 15,357 100.0   Subsaharan African 2 0.0
Same house in 1995 10,075 65.6   Swedish 235 1.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 5,264 34.3   Swiss 47 0.3
 Same county 2,428 15.8   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 2,836 18.5   United States or American 1,648 10.1
  Same state 2,270 14.8   Welsh 120 0.7
  Different state 566 3.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 18 0.1   Other ancestries 1,187 7.3
 
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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