
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Huron 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 | 36,079 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,425 | 100.0 | Native | 35,571 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 553 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 35,456 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 485 | 5.8 | State of residence | 32,664 | 90.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,160 | 49.4 | Different state | 2,792 | 7.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,339 | 27.8 | Born outside United States | 115 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 888 | 10.5 | Foreign born | 508 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 152 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 251 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 24,954 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 257 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,422 | 9.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,000 | 12.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,712 | 42.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 508 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,493 | 18.0 | Europe | 195 | 38.4 | |
| Associate degree | 1,609 | 6.4 | Asia | 102 | 20.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,844 | 7.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 874 | 3.5 | Oceania | 5 | 1.0 | |
| Latin America | 82 | 16.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.3 | (X) | Northern America | 124 | 24.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 34,093 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 29,079 | 100.0 | English only | 32,589 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 6,050 | 20.8 | Language other than English | 1,504 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 17,735 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 432 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 263 | 0.9 | Spanish | 455 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 2,621 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 149 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 2,096 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 871 | 2.6 | |
| Divorced | 2,410 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 226 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 1,229 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 137 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 54 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 36,079 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 337 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 42,116 | 116.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 136 | 40.4 | Arab | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 135 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 75 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 27,285 | 100.0 | Dutch | 544 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,655 | 13.4 | English | 3,419 | 9.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,360 | 6.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 767 | 2.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 15,250 | 42.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,841 | 100.0 | Greek | 67 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 618 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 382 | 1.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 19,078 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,376 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,334 | 17.5 | Italian | 603 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 52.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 36 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 15,744 | 82.5 | Norwegian | 230 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 77.4 | (X) | Polish | 7,380 | 20.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,799 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,850 | 41.9 | Russian | 210 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 527 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,144 | 3.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 43 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 34,093 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 23,511 | 69.0 | Swedish | 212 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,404 | 30.5 | Swiss | 84 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 6,428 | 18.9 | Ukrainian | 114 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 3,976 | 11.7 | United States or American | 2,340 | 6.5 | |
| Same state | 3,090 | 9.1 | Welsh | 95 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 886 | 2.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 178 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 2,684 | 7.4 | |
| 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)

