
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Butler 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 | 59,482 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 16,975 | 100.0 | Native | 58,693 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 998 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 58,392 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 805 | 4.7 | State of residence | 41,327 | 69.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,302 | 48.9 | Different state | 17,065 | 28.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,826 | 22.5 | Born outside United States | 301 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,044 | 17.9 | Foreign born | 789 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 346 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 342 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 37,560 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 447 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,215 | 3.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,544 | 9.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,128 | 32.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 789 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 10,220 | 27.2 | Europe | 225 | 28.5 | |
| Associate degree | 2,785 | 7.4 | Asia | 176 | 22.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,383 | 14.3 | Africa | 17 | 2.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,285 | 6.1 | Oceania | 13 | 1.6 | |
| Latin America | 226 | 28.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.3 | (X) | Northern America | 132 | 16.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 55,373 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 45,518 | 100.0 | English only | 53,550 | 96.7 | |
| Never married | 8,967 | 19.7 | Language other than English | 1,823 | 3.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 29,006 | 63.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 499 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 332 | 0.7 | Spanish | 908 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,862 | 6.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 247 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 2,341 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 688 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 4,351 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 214 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 2,218 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 158 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 59,482 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 918 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 55,335 | 93.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 515 | 56.1 | Arab | 86 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 397 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 313 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 42,384 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,712 | 2.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,191 | 14.6 | English | 6,376 | 10.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,264 | 3.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 247 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 14,479 | 24.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 15,475 | 100.0 | Greek | 74 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,202 | 7.8 | Hungarian | 24 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 31,243 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,088 | 11.9 | |
| With a disability | 5,078 | 16.3 | Italian | 1,007 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 63.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 26,165 | 83.7 | Norwegian | 728 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 82.6 | (X) | Polish | 455 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,772 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 35 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,918 | 43.1 | Russian | 343 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,248 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,337 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 56 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 55,373 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 29,651 | 53.5 | Swedish | 1,120 | 1.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 25,323 | 45.7 | Swiss | 386 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 12,022 | 21.7 | Ukrainian | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 13,301 | 24.0 | United States or American | 6,636 | 11.2 | |
| Same state | 8,665 | 15.6 | Welsh | 535 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 4,636 | 8.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 399 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 8,267 | 13.9 | |
| 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)

