
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Henry 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 | 21,997 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,848 | 100.0 | Native | 21,816 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 307 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 21,722 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 276 | 5.7 | State of residence | 16,204 | 73.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,605 | 53.7 | Different state | 5,518 | 25.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,174 | 24.2 | Born outside United States | 94 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 486 | 10.0 | Foreign born | 181 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 72 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 58 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,050 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 123 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,266 | 8.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,156 | 14.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,602 | 43.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 181 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,830 | 18.8 | Europe | 74 | 40.9 | |
| Associate degree | 439 | 2.9 | Asia | 20 | 11.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,134 | 7.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 623 | 4.1 | Oceania | 4 | 2.2 | |
| Latin America | 68 | 37.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.3 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 8.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,665 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 17,691 | 100.0 | English only | 20,151 | 97.5 | |
| Never married | 2,985 | 16.9 | Language other than English | 514 | 2.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,768 | 60.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 174 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 289 | 1.6 | Spanish | 177 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,508 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 90 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,195 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 290 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 2,141 | 12.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 68 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,103 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,997 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 302 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 18,756 | 85.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 209 | 69.2 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 34 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 30 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,710 | 100.0 | Dutch | 571 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,868 | 17.2 | English | 2,503 | 11.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 511 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 152 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,451 | 20.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,622 | 100.0 | Greek | 35 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 285 | 6.2 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,913 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,237 | 10.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,646 | 22.2 | Italian | 298 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 46.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,267 | 77.8 | Norwegian | 167 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 80.5 | (X) | Polish | 126 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,793 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 41 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,658 | 43.7 | Russian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 480 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 287 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,665 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,892 | 52.7 | Swedish | 180 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,732 | 47.1 | Swiss | 114 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 5,087 | 24.6 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,645 | 22.5 | United States or American | 3,987 | 18.1 | |
| Same state | 3,235 | 15.7 | Welsh | 125 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 1,410 | 6.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 41 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 2,380 | 10.8 | |
| 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)

