
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Butler 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 | 174,083 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 45,627 | 100.0 | Native | 171,578 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 3,214 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 170,856 | 98.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,228 | 4.9 | State of residence | 149,121 | 85.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 20,293 | 44.5 | Different state | 21,735 | 12.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 9,638 | 21.1 | Born outside United States | 722 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 10,254 | 22.5 | Foreign born | 2,505 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 852 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,212 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 116,072 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,293 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,651 | 4.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,697 | 9.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 45,282 | 39.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,505 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 19,723 | 17.0 | Europe | 1,026 | 41.0 | |
| Associate degree | 8,456 | 7.3 | Asia | 839 | 33.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 18,633 | 16.1 | Africa | 91 | 3.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 8,630 | 7.4 | Oceania | 49 | 2.0 | |
| Latin America | 294 | 11.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.8 | (X) | Northern America | 206 | 8.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 162,972 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 138,392 | 100.0 | English only | 157,969 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 31,912 | 23.1 | Language other than English | 5,003 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 84,153 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,143 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 1,980 | 1.4 | Spanish | 1,545 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 9,818 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 415 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 7,959 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,715 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 10,529 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 499 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 5,954 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 582 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 206 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 174,083 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,084 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 198,459 | 114.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 773 | 37.1 | Arab | 544 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,696 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 249 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 131,144 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,214 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 18,354 | 14.0 | English | 16,036 | 9.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,323 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 428 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 63,441 | 36.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 38,939 | 100.0 | Greek | 561 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,478 | 6.4 | Hungarian | 2,117 | 1.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 98,394 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 30,988 | 17.8 | |
| With a disability | 13,100 | 13.3 | Italian | 18,216 | 10.5 | |
| Percent employed | 57.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 519 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 85,294 | 86.7 | Norwegian | 549 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 78.7 | (X) | Polish | 10,594 | 6.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 22,704 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 69 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 8,828 | 38.9 | Russian | 1,655 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 7,622 | 4.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 4,027 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 3,924 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 162,972 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 91 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 103,211 | 63.3 | Swedish | 1,597 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 58,724 | 36.0 | Swiss | 668 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 31,198 | 19.1 | Ukrainian | 2,230 | 1.3 | |
| Different county | 27,526 | 16.9 | United States or American | 8,389 | 4.8 | |
| Same state | 18,075 | 11.1 | Welsh | 2,233 | 1.3 | |
| Different state | 9,451 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 50 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,037 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 12,429 | 7.1 | |
| 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)

