
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Butler 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 | 40,867 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,296 | 100.0 | Native | 40,288 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 705 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 40,069 | 98.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 555 | 6.0 | State of residence | 28,924 | 70.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,471 | 48.1 | Different state | 11,145 | 27.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,308 | 24.8 | Born outside United States | 219 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,257 | 13.5 | Foreign born | 579 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 277 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 264 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 27,596 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 315 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,349 | 12.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,780 | 17.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,470 | 34.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 579 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,216 | 18.9 | Europe | 109 | 18.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,574 | 5.7 | Asia | 246 | 42.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,747 | 6.3 | Africa | 20 | 3.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,460 | 5.3 | Oceania | 10 | 1.7 | |
| Latin America | 172 | 29.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.5 | (X) | Northern America | 22 | 3.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 38,277 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 32,823 | 100.0 | English only | 37,083 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 6,044 | 18.4 | Language other than English | 1,194 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,841 | 57.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 507 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 657 | 2.0 | Spanish | 504 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 3,037 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 237 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 2,512 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 442 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 4,244 | 12.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 158 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 2,301 | 7.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 175 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 106 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 40,867 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 780 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 31,955 | 78.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 368 | 47.2 | Arab | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 38 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 33 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 31,007 | 100.0 | Dutch | 982 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,098 | 16.4 | English | 3,507 | 8.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 711 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 191 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,756 | 11.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,831 | 100.0 | Greek | 39 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 698 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 22,399 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,385 | 10.7 | |
| With a disability | 6,127 | 27.4 | Italian | 606 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 45.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 13 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 16,272 | 72.6 | Norwegian | 71 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 74.6 | (X) | Polish | 174 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,325 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,187 | 50.4 | Russian | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 439 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 395 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 38,277 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 68 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 21,341 | 55.8 | Swedish | 111 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,660 | 43.5 | Swiss | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 10,045 | 26.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,615 | 17.3 | United States or American | 8,129 | 19.9 | |
| Same state | 3,713 | 9.7 | Welsh | 195 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 2,902 | 7.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 276 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 6,983 | 17.1 | |
| 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)

