
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hamilton 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 | 307,896 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 77,307 | 100.0 | Native | 298,599 | 97.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,553 | 7.2 | Born in United States | 296,535 | 96.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,134 | 5.3 | State of residence | 190,646 | 61.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 33,601 | 43.5 | Different state | 105,889 | 34.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 15,456 | 20.0 | Born outside United States | 2,064 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 18,563 | 24.0 | Foreign born | 9,297 | 3.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 4,389 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,038 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 207,180 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 5,259 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 12,436 | 6.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 27,528 | 13.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 56,320 | 27.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 9,297 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 48,652 | 23.5 | Europe | 2,132 | 22.9 | |
| Associate degree | 12,756 | 6.2 | Asia | 3,414 | 36.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 32,817 | 15.8 | Africa | 341 | 3.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 16,671 | 8.0 | Oceania | 61 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 2,891 | 31.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.7 | (X) | Northern America | 458 | 4.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 289,668 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 248,290 | 100.0 | English only | 275,038 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 59,141 | 23.8 | Language other than English | 14,630 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 136,045 | 54.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,529 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 4,456 | 1.8 | Spanish | 6,733 | 2.3 | |
| Widowed | 18,909 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,648 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 15,738 | 6.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 4,635 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 29,739 | 12.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,423 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 17,370 | 7.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,645 | 0.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,289 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 307,896 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 6,764 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 267,209 | 86.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,601 | 53.2 | Arab | 581 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 501 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 356 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 236,428 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4,459 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 32,933 | 13.9 | English | 30,166 | 9.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 5,585 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 623 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 26,265 | 8.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 65,639 | 100.0 | Greek | 677 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 5,603 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 476 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 179,553 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 28,817 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 36,340 | 20.2 | Italian | 4,476 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 57.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 267 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 143,213 | 79.8 | Norwegian | 1,337 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 78.4 | (X) | Polish | 2,153 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 40,974 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 118 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 18,430 | 45.0 | Russian | 908 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 8,641 | 2.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 6,711 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 121 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 289,668 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,428 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 158,706 | 54.8 | Swedish | 1,449 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 126,590 | 43.7 | Swiss | 653 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 81,676 | 28.2 | Ukrainian | 248 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 44,914 | 15.5 | United States or American | 51,355 | 16.7 | |
| Same state | 11,976 | 4.1 | Welsh | 1,768 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 32,938 | 11.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 377 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4,372 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 86,693 | 28.2 | |
| 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)

