
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hillsdale 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 | 46,527 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 12,176 | 100.0 | Native | 45,992 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 680 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 45,795 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 686 | 5.6 | State of residence | 35,097 | 75.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,702 | 46.8 | Different state | 10,698 | 23.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,847 | 23.4 | Born outside United States | 197 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,261 | 18.6 | Foreign born | 535 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 150 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 258 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 29,595 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 277 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,601 | 5.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,389 | 11.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,719 | 43.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 535 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,687 | 22.6 | Europe | 208 | 38.9 | |
| Associate degree | 1,640 | 5.5 | Asia | 153 | 28.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,215 | 7.5 | Africa | 17 | 3.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,344 | 4.5 | Oceania | 2 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 68 | 12.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.1 | (X) | Northern America | 87 | 16.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 43,505 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 36,515 | 100.0 | English only | 41,969 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 8,138 | 22.3 | Language other than English | 1,536 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 22,217 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 458 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 411 | 1.1 | Spanish | 526 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 2,279 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 170 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,863 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 817 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 3,470 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 219 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,738 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 80 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 46,527 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 793 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 43,737 | 94.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 346 | 43.6 | Arab | 94 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 140 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 131 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 34,282 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,817 | 3.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,541 | 13.2 | English | 6,061 | 13.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,995 | 4.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 550 | 1.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 11,893 | 25.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 11,516 | 100.0 | Greek | 61 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,126 | 9.8 | Hungarian | 341 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 25,747 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,164 | 11.1 | |
| With a disability | 5,049 | 19.6 | Italian | 942 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 57.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 45 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 20,698 | 80.4 | Norwegian | 297 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 79.5 | (X) | Polish | 1,857 | 4.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,955 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 17 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,665 | 44.8 | Russian | 96 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 513 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,056 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 30 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 43,505 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 55 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 25,239 | 58.0 | Swedish | 343 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 18,094 | 41.6 | Swiss | 304 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 9,617 | 22.1 | Ukrainian | 94 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 8,477 | 19.5 | United States or American | 4,694 | 10.1 | |
| Same state | 5,676 | 13.0 | Welsh | 278 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 2,801 | 6.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 172 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 4,863 | 10.5 | |
| 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)

