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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Vigo 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 105,848 100.0
      enrolled in school 31,055 100.0   Native 103,729 98.0
Nursery school, preschool 1,669 5.4       Born in United States 103,153 97.5
Kindergarten 1,357 4.4           State of residence 78,036 73.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 11,130 35.8           Different state 25,117 23.7
High school (grades 9-12) 5,281 17.0       Born outside United States 576 0.5
College or graduate school 11,618 37.4   Foreign born 2,119 2.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,216 1.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 759 0.7
  Population 25 years and over 66,714 100.0       Not a citizen 1,360 1.3
Less than 9th grade 3,203 4.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 9,452 14.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 23,226 34.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 2,119 100.0
Some college, no degree 12,962 19.4   Europe 550 26.0
Associate degree 3,604 5.4   Asia 968 45.7
Bachelor's degree 7,799 11.7   Africa 193 9.1
Graduate or professional degree 6,468 9.7   Oceania 8 0.4
        Latin America 322 15.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 81.0 (X)   Northern America 78 3.7
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 21.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 99,390 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 85,823 100.0   English only 95,485 96.1
Never married 23,710 27.6   Language other than English 3,905 3.9
Now married, except separated 44,710 52.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,114 1.1
Separated 1,062 1.2   Spanish 1,374 1.4
Widowed 6,571 7.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 416 0.4
 Female 5,467 6.4   Other Indo-European languages 1,426 1.4
Divorced 9,770 11.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 282 0.3
 Female 5,399 6.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 767 0.8
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 339 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 105,848 100.0
           under 18 years 1,655 100.0     Total ancestries reported 93,179 88.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 910 55.0   Arab 445 0.4
        Czech¹ 426 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 186 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 81,608 100.0   Dutch 2,715 2.6
Civilian veterans 10,642 13.0   English 11,186 10.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 3,074 2.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 251 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 20,689 19.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 24,905 100.0   Greek 159 0.2
With a disability 2,265 9.1   Hungarian 488 0.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 57,031 100.0   Irish¹ 11,211 10.6
With a disability 11,336 19.9   Italian 2,731 2.6
 Percent employed 53.8 (X)   Lithuanian 132 0.1
No disability 45,695 80.1   Norwegian 518 0.5
 Percent employed 77.3 (X)   Polish 1,645 1.6
     Population 65 years and over 13,994 100.0   Portuguese 29 0.0
With a disability 6,300 45.0   Russian 267 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 1,523 1.4
        Scottish 2,116 2.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 114 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 99,390 100.0   Subsaharan African 507 0.5
Same house in 1995 52,239 52.6   Swedish 718 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 45,908 46.2   Swiss 159 0.2
 Same county 27,357 27.5   Ukrainian 110 0.1
 Different county 18,551 18.7   United States or American 15,094 14.3
  Same state 9,481 9.5   Welsh 1,217 1.1
  Different state 9,070 9.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 89 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 1,243 1.3   Other ancestries 15,380 14.5
 
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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