DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Marion 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 | 25,595 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,517 | 100.0 | Native | 25,399 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 359 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 25,309 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 469 | 7.2 | State of residence | 21,252 | 83.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,379 | 51.8 | Different state | 4,057 | 15.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,584 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 90 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 726 | 11.1 | Foreign born | 196 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 68 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 146 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,025 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 50 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,916 | 12.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,455 | 21.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,346 | 33.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 196 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,742 | 17.1 | Europe | 55 | 28.1 | |
| Associate degree | 725 | 4.5 | Asia | 70 | 35.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,197 | 7.5 | Africa | 9 | 4.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 644 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 62 | 31.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.5 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,878 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 19,785 | 100.0 | English only | 23,454 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 4,315 | 21.8 | Language other than English | 424 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,968 | 55.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 161 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 630 | 3.2 | Spanish | 232 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,908 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 106 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,636 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 147 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,964 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 945 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 25,595 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 873 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,543 | 76.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 561 | 64.3 | Arab | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 21 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,480 | 100.0 | Dutch | 59 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,205 | 11.9 | English | 1,844 | 7.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 456 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 62 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 848 | 3.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,128 | 100.0 | Greek | 14 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 439 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,492 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,334 | 5.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,930 | 29.1 | Italian | 230 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 44.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,562 | 70.9 | Norwegian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 72.0 | (X) | Polish | 45 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,349 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,871 | 55.9 | Russian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 495 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 237 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,878 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 225 | 0.9 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,227 | 59.6 | Swedish | 42 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,560 | 40.0 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 6,230 | 26.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,330 | 13.9 | United States or American | 5,221 | 20.4 | |
| Same state | 2,087 | 8.7 | Welsh | 45 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,243 | 5.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 91 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 8,284 | 32.4 | |
| 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
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