
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Eaton 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 | 103,655 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 28,631 | 100.0 | Native | 101,389 | 97.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,697 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 100,920 | 97.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,508 | 5.3 | State of residence | 84,535 | 81.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 12,884 | 45.0 | Different state | 16,385 | 15.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,649 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 469 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 5,893 | 20.6 | Foreign born | 2,266 | 2.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 898 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,110 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 67,044 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,156 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,800 | 2.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,217 | 7.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 20,361 | 30.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,266 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 19,301 | 28.8 | Europe | 526 | 23.2 | |
| Associate degree | 5,805 | 8.7 | Asia | 1,155 | 51.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 9,908 | 14.8 | Africa | 65 | 2.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 4,652 | 6.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 282 | 12.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 89.5 | (X) | Northern America | 238 | 10.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 97,148 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 81,596 | 100.0 | English only | 92,353 | 95.1 | |
| Never married | 19,307 | 23.7 | Language other than English | 4,795 | 4.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 47,945 | 58.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,439 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 786 | 1.0 | Spanish | 1,976 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 4,907 | 6.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 616 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 4,106 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,636 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 8,651 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 386 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 4,839 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 865 | 0.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 329 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 103,655 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,415 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 111,205 | 107.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 645 | 45.6 | Arab | 620 | 0.6 | |
| Czech¹ | 764 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 591 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 76,490 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5,123 | 4.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 9,914 | 13.0 | English | 15,709 | 15.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,674 | 4.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,638 | 1.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 26,597 | 25.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 24,920 | 100.0 | Greek | 256 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,184 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 348 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 60,289 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 12,211 | 11.8 | |
| With a disability | 9,917 | 16.4 | Italian | 2,856 | 2.8 | |
| Percent employed | 65.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 120 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 50,372 | 83.6 | Norwegian | 1,135 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 81.9 | (X) | Polish | 4,118 | 4.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 11,107 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 71 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,649 | 41.9 | Russian | 383 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,267 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,723 | 2.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 280 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 97,148 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 208 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 55,310 | 56.9 | Swedish | 1,981 | 1.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 41,141 | 42.3 | Swiss | 336 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 18,053 | 18.6 | Ukrainian | 199 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 23,088 | 23.8 | United States or American | 8,802 | 8.5 | |
| Same state | 18,838 | 19.4 | Welsh | 627 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 4,250 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 75 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 697 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 17,493 | 16.9 | |
| 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)

