
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Miami 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 | 98,868 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 24,416 | 100.0 | Native | 97,401 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,624 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 97,002 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,293 | 5.3 | State of residence | 78,878 | 79.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 12,050 | 49.4 | Different state | 18,124 | 18.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,999 | 24.6 | Born outside United States | 399 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,450 | 14.1 | Foreign born | 1,467 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 579 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 715 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 65,765 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 752 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,748 | 4.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,649 | 13.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 26,183 | 39.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,467 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 13,032 | 19.8 | Europe | 445 | 30.3 | |
| Associate degree | 4,438 | 6.7 | Asia | 708 | 48.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 7,174 | 10.9 | Africa | 21 | 1.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,541 | 5.4 | Oceania | 6 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 154 | 10.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.7 | (X) | Northern America | 133 | 9.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 92,444 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 77,936 | 100.0 | English only | 89,771 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 15,409 | 19.8 | Language other than English | 2,673 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 47,526 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 885 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 924 | 1.2 | Spanish | 1,127 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 5,340 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 332 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 4,435 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 944 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 8,737 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 278 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 5,018 | 6.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 524 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 272 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 98,868 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,374 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 91,880 | 92.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 729 | 53.1 | Arab | 194 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 208 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 80 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 73,243 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,709 | 2.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 10,383 | 14.2 | English | 9,734 | 9.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,443 | 3.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 240 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 29,867 | 30.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 22,529 | 100.0 | Greek | 207 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,568 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 500 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 56,321 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 11,091 | 11.2 | |
| With a disability | 8,608 | 15.3 | Italian | 1,933 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 60.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 117 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 47,713 | 84.7 | Norwegian | 490 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 83.4 | (X) | Polish | 1,271 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 12,302 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 46 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,771 | 38.8 | Russian | 172 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,364 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,802 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 77 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 92,444 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 238 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 52,097 | 56.4 | Swedish | 534 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 39,869 | 43.1 | Swiss | 278 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 24,326 | 26.3 | Ukrainian | 126 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 15,543 | 16.8 | United States or American | 13,992 | 14.2 | |
| Same state | 10,591 | 11.5 | Welsh | 931 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 4,952 | 5.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 478 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 10,183 | 10.3 | |
| 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)

