DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: LaGrange 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 | 34,909 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,998 | 100.0 | Native | 34,171 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 331 | 4.1 | Born in United States | 34,052 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 567 | 7.1 | State of residence | 25,587 | 73.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,028 | 62.9 | Different state | 8,465 | 24.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,504 | 18.8 | Born outside United States | 119 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 568 | 7.1 | Foreign born | 738 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 402 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 133 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 19,519 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 605 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,596 | 23.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,174 | 16.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,611 | 33.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 738 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,736 | 14.0 | Europe | 61 | 8.3 | |
| Associate degree | 673 | 3.4 | Asia | 143 | 19.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,036 | 5.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 693 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 514 | 69.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 60.2 | (X) | Northern America | 20 | 2.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 31,509 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 25,139 | 100.0 | English only | 21,505 | 68.3 | |
| Never married | 5,768 | 22.9 | Language other than English | 10,004 | 31.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,895 | 63.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,683 | 14.9 | |
| Separated | 338 | 1.3 | Spanish | 903 | 2.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,271 | 5.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 662 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 1,016 | 4.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 8,967 | 28.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,867 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,921 | 12.4 | |
| Female | 904 | 3.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 117 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 86 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 34,909 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 383 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 28,325 | 81.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 134 | 35.0 | Arab | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 47 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 37 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 23,139 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,186 | 3.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,093 | 9.0 | English | 2,044 | 5.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 672 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 147 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,751 | 25.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,948 | 100.0 | Greek | 30 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 677 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 64 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,037 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,016 | 5.8 | |
| With a disability | 3,282 | 18.2 | Italian | 421 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 61.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 14,755 | 81.8 | Norwegian | 107 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 77.5 | (X) | Polish | 427 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,351 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,477 | 44.1 | Russian | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 213 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 427 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 31,509 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 19,827 | 62.9 | Swedish | 280 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,354 | 36.0 | Swiss | 1,659 | 4.8 | |
| Same county | 6,400 | 20.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,954 | 15.7 | United States or American | 5,408 | 15.5 | |
| Same state | 3,180 | 10.1 | Welsh | 58 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,774 | 5.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 328 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 4,246 | 12.2 | |
| 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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