
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lake 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 | 484,564 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 130,977 | 100.0 | Native | 458,716 | 94.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 9,579 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 454,016 | 93.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 7,418 | 5.7 | State of residence | 292,340 | 60.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 58,811 | 44.9 | Different state | 161,676 | 33.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 30,525 | 23.3 | Born outside United States | 4,700 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 24,644 | 18.8 | Foreign born | 25,848 | 5.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 7,447 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 14,319 | 3.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 310,220 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 11,529 | 2.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 19,734 | 6.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 40,137 | 12.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 115,681 | 37.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 25,848 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 68,204 | 22.0 | Europe | 9,024 | 34.9 | |
| Associate degree | 16,157 | 5.2 | Asia | 3,680 | 14.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 33,327 | 10.7 | Africa | 638 | 2.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 16,980 | 5.5 | Oceania | 48 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 11,936 | 46.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.7 | (X) | Northern America | 522 | 2.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 450,115 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 377,333 | 100.0 | English only | 389,523 | 86.5 | |
| Never married | 109,779 | 29.1 | Language other than English | 60,592 | 13.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 191,402 | 50.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21,940 | 4.9 | |
| Separated | 7,836 | 2.1 | Spanish | 39,105 | 8.7 | |
| Widowed | 29,749 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15,091 | 3.4 | |
| Female | 24,092 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 17,632 | 3.9 | |
| Divorced | 38,567 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,417 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 22,120 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,106 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 895 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 484,564 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 12,507 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 522,765 | 107.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 5,804 | 46.4 | Arab | 1,112 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,091 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,299 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 354,615 | 100.0 | Dutch | 14,519 | 3.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 47,189 | 13.3 | English | 25,406 | 5.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 8,845 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,098 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 74,165 | 15.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 114,922 | 100.0 | Greek | 4,859 | 1.0 | |
| With a disability | 9,402 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 7,419 | 1.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 270,619 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 50,969 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 52,358 | 19.3 | Italian | 20,347 | 4.2 | |
| Percent employed | 53.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2,746 | 0.6 | |
| No disability | 218,261 | 80.7 | Norwegian | 2,958 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 74.7 | (X) | Polish | 49,401 | 10.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 60,797 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 84 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 26,878 | 44.2 | Russian | 2,861 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,600 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 4,575 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 12,382 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 450,115 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,475 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 277,005 | 61.5 | Swedish | 7,612 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 168,267 | 37.4 | Swiss | 617 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 116,262 | 25.8 | Ukrainian | 1,249 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 52,005 | 11.6 | United States or American | 17,820 | 3.7 | |
| Same state | 10,548 | 2.3 | Welsh | 2,094 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 41,457 | 9.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 520 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4,843 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 196,642 | 40.6 | |
| 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)

