
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Summit 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 | 542,899 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 142,049 | 100.0 | Native | 525,170 | 96.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 10,586 | 7.5 | Born in United States | 522,549 | 96.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 8,530 | 6.0 | State of residence | 408,071 | 75.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 63,218 | 44.5 | Different state | 114,478 | 21.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 29,738 | 20.9 | Born outside United States | 2,621 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 29,977 | 21.1 | Foreign born | 17,729 | 3.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 6,743 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 9,514 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 362,645 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 8,215 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 11,214 | 3.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 40,662 | 11.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 121,705 | 33.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 17,729 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 78,808 | 21.7 | Europe | 7,859 | 44.3 | |
| Associate degree | 19,160 | 5.3 | Asia | 7,161 | 40.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 60,675 | 16.7 | Africa | 390 | 2.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 30,421 | 8.4 | Oceania | 72 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 1,259 | 7.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.7 | (X) | Northern America | 988 | 5.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 25.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 506,987 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 428,918 | 100.0 | English only | 478,613 | 94.4 | |
| Never married | 111,642 | 26.0 | Language other than English | 28,374 | 5.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 231,752 | 54.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,222 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 5,793 | 1.4 | Spanish | 6,290 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 31,700 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,862 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 25,923 | 6.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 14,113 | 2.8 | |
| Divorced | 48,031 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,176 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 27,578 | 6.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4,947 | 1.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,357 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 542,899 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 7,866 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 606,857 | 111.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,709 | 47.2 | Arab | 4,113 | 0.8 | |
| Czech¹ | 6,284 | 1.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 972 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 406,667 | 100.0 | Dutch | 9,352 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 55,352 | 13.6 | English | 55,829 | 10.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 12,800 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,368 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 128,999 | 23.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 119,427 | 100.0 | Greek | 3,614 | 0.7 | |
| With a disability | 9,273 | 7.8 | Hungarian | 16,067 | 3.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 308,646 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 76,168 | 14.0 | |
| With a disability | 50,806 | 16.5 | Italian | 48,567 | 8.9 | |
| Percent employed | 59.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,509 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 257,840 | 83.5 | Norwegian | 2,672 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 25,180 | 4.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 72,871 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 410 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 29,041 | 39.9 | Russian | 4,868 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 9,102 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 11,095 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 11,004 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 506,987 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4,126 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 295,911 | 58.4 | Swedish | 5,246 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 205,782 | 40.6 | Swiss | 2,898 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 133,891 | 26.4 | Ukrainian | 3,007 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 71,891 | 14.2 | United States or American | 34,547 | 6.4 | |
| Same state | 46,789 | 9.2 | Welsh | 7,653 | 1.4 | |
| Different state | 25,102 | 5.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 457 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5,294 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 118,950 | 21.9 | |
| 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)

