
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hamilton 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 | 182,740 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 51,209 | 100.0 | Native | 175,457 | 96.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,822 | 11.4 | Born in United States | 174,178 | 95.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,412 | 6.7 | State of residence | 108,802 | 59.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 24,604 | 48.0 | Different state | 65,376 | 35.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 10,323 | 20.2 | Born outside United States | 1,279 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 7,048 | 13.8 | Foreign born | 7,283 | 4.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,567 | 2.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 3,550 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 116,457 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3,733 | 2.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,003 | 1.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,762 | 4.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 23,023 | 19.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 7,283 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 21,921 | 18.8 | Europe | 2,018 | 27.7 | |
| Associate degree | 7,839 | 6.7 | Asia | 3,333 | 45.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 38,791 | 33.3 | Africa | 255 | 3.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 18,118 | 15.6 | Oceania | 40 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 1,087 | 14.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 94.2 | (X) | Northern America | 550 | 7.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 48.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 165,990 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 134,505 | 100.0 | English only | 156,275 | 94.1 | |
| Never married | 24,613 | 18.3 | Language other than English | 9,715 | 5.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 93,204 | 69.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,977 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 1,160 | 0.9 | Spanish | 3,226 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 5,037 | 3.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,126 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 4,003 | 3.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 3,469 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 10,491 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 784 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 6,188 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,396 | 1.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,013 | 0.6 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 182,740 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,291 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 187,581 | 102.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 479 | 37.1 | Arab | 911 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,009 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 819 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 126,458 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,974 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 13,521 | 10.7 | English | 24,896 | 13.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 5,219 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 680 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 49,313 | 27.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 43,741 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,038 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 2,800 | 6.4 | Hungarian | 1,277 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 107,930 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 24,896 | 13.6 | |
| With a disability | 12,134 | 11.2 | Italian | 6,838 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 71.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 430 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 95,796 | 88.8 | Norwegian | 2,362 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 83.1 | (X) | Polish | 5,478 | 3.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 12,892 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 129 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,396 | 34.1 | Russian | 1,486 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 3,320 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,154 | 2.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 457 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 165,990 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 349 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 76,514 | 46.1 | Swedish | 2,483 | 1.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 87,277 | 52.6 | Swiss | 1,003 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 30,490 | 18.4 | Ukrainian | 388 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 56,787 | 34.2 | United States or American | 17,870 | 9.8 | |
| Same state | 33,375 | 20.1 | Welsh | 1,791 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 23,412 | 14.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 95 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,199 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 23,916 | 13.1 | |
| 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)

