
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hardin 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 | 18,812 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,772 | 100.0 | Native | 18,489 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 293 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 18,452 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 182 | 3.8 | State of residence | 15,837 | 84.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,129 | 44.6 | Different state | 2,615 | 13.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,291 | 27.1 | Born outside United States | 37 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 877 | 18.4 | Foreign born | 323 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 198 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 126 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,615 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 197 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 798 | 6.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,008 | 8.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,668 | 37.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 323 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,730 | 21.6 | Europe | 73 | 22.6 | |
| Associate degree | 1,250 | 9.9 | Asia | 61 | 18.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,600 | 12.7 | Africa | 6 | 1.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 561 | 4.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 181 | 56.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 0.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 17,726 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 15,252 | 100.0 | English only | 16,959 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 3,334 | 21.9 | Language other than English | 767 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,132 | 59.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 287 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 118 | 0.8 | Spanish | 568 | 3.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,528 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 239 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 1,268 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 173 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,140 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 635 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 18,812 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 198 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,803 | 105.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 137 | 69.2 | Arab | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 180 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 440 | 2.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 14,188 | 100.0 | Dutch | 748 | 4.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,996 | 14.1 | English | 1,986 | 10.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 504 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 43 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,443 | 44.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,258 | 100.0 | Greek | 14 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 409 | 9.6 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,362 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,914 | 10.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,659 | 17.7 | Italian | 181 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 68.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,703 | 82.3 | Norwegian | 1,982 | 10.5 | |
| Percent employed | 83.5 | (X) | Polish | 138 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,558 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 25 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,329 | 37.4 | Russian | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 174 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 287 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 17,726 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 36 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,780 | 60.8 | Swedish | 392 | 2.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,869 | 38.8 | Swiss | 75 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 3,510 | 19.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,359 | 18.9 | United States or American | 1,098 | 5.8 | |
| Same state | 2,413 | 13.6 | Welsh | 110 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 946 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 77 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 993 | 5.3 | |
| 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)

