
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ashtabula 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 | 102,728 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 24,547 | 100.0 | Native | 101,109 | 98.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,419 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 100,094 | 97.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,334 | 5.4 | State of residence | 77,261 | 75.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 12,881 | 52.5 | Different state | 22,833 | 22.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,010 | 24.5 | Born outside United States | 1,015 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,903 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 1,619 | 1.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 414 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 974 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 67,994 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 645 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,588 | 5.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,071 | 14.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 31,157 | 45.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,619 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 12,120 | 17.8 | Europe | 765 | 47.3 | |
| Associate degree | 3,541 | 5.2 | Asia | 195 | 12.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,065 | 7.4 | Africa | 23 | 1.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,452 | 3.6 | Oceania | 18 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 465 | 28.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.9 | (X) | Northern America | 153 | 9.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 96,005 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 80,620 | 100.0 | English only | 91,085 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 18,057 | 22.4 | Language other than English | 4,920 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 45,765 | 56.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,874 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 1,188 | 1.5 | Spanish | 2,292 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 6,568 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,019 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 5,236 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,229 | 2.3 | |
| Divorced | 9,042 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 715 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 5,010 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 122 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 54 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 102,728 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,995 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 114,065 | 111.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 913 | 45.8 | Arab | 248 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,112 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 134 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 75,874 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,709 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 11,282 | 14.9 | English | 13,297 | 12.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,262 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 405 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 23,023 | 22.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 23,721 | 100.0 | Greek | 317 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,958 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 3,904 | 3.8 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 56,759 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 14,932 | 14.5 | |
| With a disability | 11,349 | 20.0 | Italian | 11,107 | 10.8 | |
| Percent employed | 53.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 268 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 45,410 | 80.0 | Norwegian | 265 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 78.5 | (X) | Polish | 5,043 | 4.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 14,121 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 251 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 6,156 | 43.6 | Russian | 533 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,869 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,010 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,259 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 96,005 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 99 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 59,284 | 61.8 | Swedish | 1,802 | 1.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 36,215 | 37.7 | Swiss | 348 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 24,440 | 25.5 | Ukrainian | 414 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 11,775 | 12.3 | United States or American | 8,262 | 8.0 | |
| Same state | 7,227 | 7.5 | Welsh | 1,099 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 4,548 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 60 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 506 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 18,033 | 17.6 | |
| 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)

