DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lorain 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 | 284,664 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 75,017 | 100.0 | Native | 277,268 | 97.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,817 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 271,824 | 95.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,523 | 6.0 | State of residence | 210,584 | 74.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 35,000 | 46.7 | Different state | 61,240 | 21.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 15,966 | 21.3 | Born outside United States | 5,444 | 1.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 13,711 | 18.3 | Foreign born | 7,396 | 2.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,962 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,567 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 185,491 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,829 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 7,644 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 24,236 | 13.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 68,348 | 36.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 7,396 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 41,694 | 22.5 | Europe | 3,864 | 52.2 | |
| Associate degree | 12,828 | 6.9 | Asia | 1,419 | 19.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 20,203 | 10.9 | Africa | 169 | 2.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 10,538 | 5.7 | Oceania | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 1,485 | 20.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.8 | (X) | Northern America | 451 | 6.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 264,988 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 221,899 | 100.0 | English only | 243,568 | 91.9 | |
| Never married | 55,829 | 25.2 | Language other than English | 21,420 | 8.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 124,336 | 56.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,098 | 2.7 | |
| Separated | 3,318 | 1.5 | Spanish | 12,841 | 4.8 | |
| Widowed | 15,045 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,912 | 1.9 | |
| Female | 12,358 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 6,151 | 2.3 | |
| Divorced | 23,371 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,486 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 12,915 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,028 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 279 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 284,664 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 5,973 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 337,455 | 118.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,679 | 44.9 | Arab | 1,243 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,563 | 1.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 732 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 209,939 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4,964 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 31,155 | 14.8 | English | 30,160 | 10.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 6,332 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,177 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 73,337 | 25.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 65,930 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,508 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 5,229 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 14,042 | 4.9 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 158,905 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 42,685 | 15.0 | |
| With a disability | 26,451 | 16.6 | Italian | 20,603 | 7.2 | |
| Percent employed | 58.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 555 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 132,454 | 83.4 | Norwegian | 1,051 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 79.8 | (X) | Polish | 23,352 | 8.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 34,032 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 165 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 13,544 | 39.8 | Russian | 2,813 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,133 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 6,112 | 2.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 9,993 | 3.5 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 264,988 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,351 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 157,396 | 59.4 | Swedish | 1,821 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 105,238 | 39.7 | Swiss | 1,216 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 68,805 | 26.0 | Ukrainian | 2,005 | 0.7 | |
| Different county | 36,433 | 13.7 | United States or American | 15,010 | 5.3 | |
| Same state | 23,728 | 9.0 | Welsh | 2,799 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 12,705 | 4.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 215 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,354 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 63,518 | 22.3 | |
| 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)
