
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 | 59,487 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 15,240 | 100.0 | Native | 58,379 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,135 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 58,190 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 997 | 6.5 | State of residence | 48,880 | 82.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,862 | 51.6 | Different state | 9,310 | 15.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,445 | 22.6 | Born outside United States | 189 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,801 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 1,108 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 598 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 460 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 37,576 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 648 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,759 | 4.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,364 | 14.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 18,320 | 48.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,108 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,281 | 16.7 | Europe | 268 | 24.2 | |
| Associate degree | 1,750 | 4.7 | Asia | 129 | 11.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,862 | 7.6 | Africa | 16 | 1.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,240 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 649 | 58.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.0 | (X) | Northern America | 46 | 4.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 55,002 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 45,437 | 100.0 | English only | 52,517 | 95.5 | |
| Never married | 9,867 | 21.7 | Language other than English | 2,485 | 4.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 27,015 | 59.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 949 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 652 | 1.4 | Spanish | 1,501 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 2,931 | 6.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 570 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 2,422 | 5.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 903 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 4,972 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 357 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 2,743 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 59 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 59,487 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 900 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 56,557 | 95.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 381 | 42.3 | Arab | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 312 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 143 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 42,660 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,866 | 3.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,859 | 13.7 | English | 6,649 | 11.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,338 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 230 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 18,608 | 31.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 14,586 | 100.0 | Greek | 110 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,065 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 597 | 1.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 32,882 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,815 | 9.8 | |
| With a disability | 5,727 | 17.4 | Italian | 2,454 | 4.1 | |
| Percent employed | 59.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 18 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 27,155 | 82.6 | Norwegian | 198 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 80.0 | (X) | Polish | 1,144 | 1.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,981 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 24 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,845 | 40.8 | Russian | 104 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 583 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,010 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 272 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 55,002 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 32,105 | 58.4 | Swedish | 271 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 22,465 | 40.8 | Swiss | 291 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 14,594 | 26.5 | Ukrainian | 77 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 7,871 | 14.3 | United States or American | 6,624 | 11.1 | |
| Same state | 5,876 | 10.7 | Welsh | 543 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 1,995 | 3.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 432 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 7,170 | 12.1 | |
| 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)

