DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sylvania township
[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 44,325 100.0
      enrolled in school 13,169 100.0   Native 41,831 94.4
Nursery school, preschool 1,044 7.9       Born in United States 41,578 93.8
Kindergarten 571 4.3           State of residence 30,689 69.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 6,167 46.8           Different state 10,889 24.6
High school (grades 9-12) 3,040 23.1       Born outside United States 253 0.6
College or graduate school 2,347 17.8   Foreign born 2,494 5.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,020 2.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,536 3.5
  Population 25 years and over 29,276 100.0       Not a citizen 958 2.2
Less than 9th grade 496 1.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,742 6.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 6,576 22.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 2,494 100.0
Some college, no degree 5,910 20.2   Europe 734 29.4
Associate degree 2,309 7.9   Asia 1,293 51.8
Bachelor's degree 7,433 25.4   Africa 84 3.4
Graduate or professional degree 4,810 16.4   Oceania 17 0.7
        Latin America 214 8.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 92.4 (X)   Northern America 152 6.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 41.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 41,648 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 34,171 100.0   English only 38,591 92.7
Never married 6,862 20.1   Language other than English 3,057 7.3
Now married, except separated 21,915 64.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,047 2.5
Separated 270 0.8   Spanish 584 1.4
Widowed 2,346 6.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 206 0.5
 Female 1,990 5.8   Other Indo-European languages 1,254 3.0
Divorced 2,778 8.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 368 0.9
 Female 1,652 4.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 712 1.7
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 381 0.9
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 44,325 100.0
           under 18 years 380 100.0     Total ancestries reported 50,941 114.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 178 46.8   Arab 938 2.1
        Czech¹ 349 0.8
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 84 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 31,935 100.0   Dutch 765 1.7
Civilian veterans 3,984 12.5   English 4,857 11.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 2,117 4.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 434 1.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 14,043 31.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 11,083 100.0   Greek 673 1.5
With a disability 763 6.9   Hungarian 972 2.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 24,646 100.0   Irish¹ 6,148 13.9
With a disability 2,808 11.4   Italian 2,176 4.9
 Percent employed 64.6 (X)   Lithuanian 99 0.2
No disability 21,838 88.6   Norwegian 261 0.6
 Percent employed 82.0 (X)   Polish 4,800 10.8
     Population 65 years and over 5,590 100.0   Portuguese 5 0.0
With a disability 2,172 38.9   Russian 728 1.6
        Scotch-Irish 753 1.7
        Scottish 1,037 2.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 186 0.4
  Population 5 years and over 41,648 100.0   Subsaharan African 112 0.3
Same house in 1995 25,537 61.3   Swedish 384 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 15,623 37.5   Swiss 361 0.8
 Same county 11,271 27.1   Ukrainian 214 0.5
 Different county 4,352 10.4   United States or American 2,091 4.7
  Same state 1,422 3.4   Welsh 440 1.0
  Different state 2,930 7.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 488 1.2   Other ancestries 5,914 13.3
 
Date: August 27, 2004
 
-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.