
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kosciusko 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 | 74,057 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 18,081 | 100.0 | Native | 71,915 | 97.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,228 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 71,574 | 96.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,214 | 6.7 | State of residence | 53,627 | 72.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,151 | 50.6 | Different state | 17,947 | 24.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,241 | 23.5 | Born outside United States | 341 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,247 | 12.4 | Foreign born | 2,142 | 2.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,246 | 1.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 672 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 47,103 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,470 | 2.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,895 | 6.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,769 | 12.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 19,820 | 42.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,142 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,363 | 19.9 | Europe | 245 | 11.4 | |
| Associate degree | 2,258 | 4.8 | Asia | 294 | 13.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,299 | 9.1 | Africa | 12 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,699 | 5.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,486 | 69.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.6 | (X) | Northern America | 105 | 4.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 68,606 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 57,042 | 100.0 | English only | 62,828 | 91.6 | |
| Never married | 11,939 | 20.9 | Language other than English | 5,778 | 8.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 35,580 | 62.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,661 | 3.9 | |
| Separated | 625 | 1.1 | Spanish | 3,081 | 4.5 | |
| Widowed | 3,342 | 5.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,598 | 2.3 | |
| Female | 2,770 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,397 | 3.5 | |
| Divorced | 5,556 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 891 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 2,920 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 253 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 172 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 74,057 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,038 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 65,754 | 88.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 397 | 38.2 | Arab | 50 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 189 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 150 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 53,526 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,077 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,625 | 12.4 | English | 6,612 | 8.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,300 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 243 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 18,877 | 25.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 17,863 | 100.0 | Greek | 189 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,427 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 427 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 41,465 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,082 | 9.6 | |
| With a disability | 7,214 | 17.4 | Italian | 1,175 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 66.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 39 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 34,251 | 82.6 | Norwegian | 607 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 82.0 | (X) | Polish | 1,531 | 2.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,112 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 25 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,088 | 38.1 | Russian | 223 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 783 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,123 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 68,606 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 22 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 38,845 | 56.6 | Swedish | 737 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 29,002 | 42.3 | Swiss | 1,014 | 1.4 | |
| Same county | 17,334 | 25.3 | Ukrainian | 99 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 11,668 | 17.0 | United States or American | 10,618 | 14.3 | |
| Same state | 7,285 | 10.6 | Welsh | 380 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 4,383 | 6.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 759 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 10,156 | 13.7 | |
| 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)

