
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Henry 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 | 15,060 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,368 | 100.0 | Native | 14,851 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 267 | 7.9 | Born in United States | 14,782 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 299 | 8.9 | State of residence | 12,298 | 81.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,612 | 47.9 | Different state | 2,484 | 16.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 859 | 25.5 | Born outside United States | 69 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 331 | 9.8 | Foreign born | 209 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 126 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 64 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,032 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 145 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,078 | 10.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,592 | 15.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,465 | 44.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 209 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,526 | 15.2 | Europe | 19 | 9.1 | |
| Associate degree | 388 | 3.9 | Asia | 51 | 24.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 558 | 5.6 | Africa | 4 | 1.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 425 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 135 | 64.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,015 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,878 | 100.0 | English only | 13,645 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 2,223 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 370 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,107 | 59.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 194 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 248 | 2.1 | Spanish | 264 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 821 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 147 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 671 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 55 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,479 | 12.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 722 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 47 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,060 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 304 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,901 | 79.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 157 | 51.6 | Arab | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 13 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,216 | 100.0 | Dutch | 224 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,455 | 13.0 | English | 1,252 | 8.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 340 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,685 | 11.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,374 | 100.0 | Greek | 36 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 344 | 10.2 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,784 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,684 | 11.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,177 | 24.8 | Italian | 167 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 54.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 6,607 | 75.2 | Norwegian | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 79.0 | (X) | Polish | 46 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,792 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 902 | 50.3 | Russian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 267 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 253 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,015 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,070 | 57.6 | Swedish | 52 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,822 | 41.5 | Swiss | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,640 | 18.8 | Ukrainian | 36 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 3,182 | 22.7 | United States or American | 4,032 | 26.8 | |
| Same state | 2,435 | 17.4 | Welsh | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 747 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 123 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 1,701 | 11.3 | |
| 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)

