
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Daviess 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 | 91,545 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 23,030 | 100.0 | Native | 90,630 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,608 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 90,267 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,329 | 5.8 | State of residence | 72,578 | 79.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,584 | 46.0 | Different state | 17,689 | 19.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,620 | 24.4 | Born outside United States | 363 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,889 | 16.9 | Foreign born | 915 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 452 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 402 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 59,745 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 513 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,029 | 6.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,487 | 12.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 22,492 | 37.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 915 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 12,229 | 20.5 | Europe | 230 | 25.1 | |
| Associate degree | 3,340 | 5.6 | Asia | 332 | 36.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 6,525 | 10.9 | Africa | 29 | 3.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,643 | 6.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 297 | 32.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.7 | (X) | Northern America | 27 | 3.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 85,314 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 72,180 | 100.0 | English only | 82,552 | 96.8 | |
| Never married | 15,893 | 22.0 | Language other than English | 2,762 | 3.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 41,653 | 57.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,060 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 1,062 | 1.5 | Spanish | 1,505 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 5,189 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 749 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 4,399 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,064 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 8,383 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 245 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 4,648 | 6.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 134 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 66 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 91,545 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,123 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 71,701 | 78.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 633 | 56.4 | Arab | 72 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 99 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 61 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 67,972 | 100.0 | Dutch | 734 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 9,856 | 14.5 | English | 9,911 | 10.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,641 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 114 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 12,250 | 13.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 21,087 | 100.0 | Greek | 141 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,831 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 155 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 51,083 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 10,618 | 11.6 | |
| With a disability | 10,971 | 21.5 | Italian | 919 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 54.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 20 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 40,112 | 78.5 | Norwegian | 142 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 79.5 | (X) | Polish | 545 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 11,808 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 45 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,364 | 45.4 | Russian | 92 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,393 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,340 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 41 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 85,314 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 175 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 46,997 | 55.1 | Swedish | 348 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 37,860 | 44.4 | Swiss | 176 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 27,193 | 31.9 | Ukrainian | 31 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 10,667 | 12.5 | United States or American | 19,293 | 21.1 | |
| Same state | 5,491 | 6.4 | Welsh | 492 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 5,176 | 6.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 20 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 457 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 10,833 | 11.8 | |
| 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)

