| DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000 | ||||||
| Geographic Area: Northwest Ohio 11-County Region | ||||||
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| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 987,405 | 100.0% | |||
| enrolled in school | 276,427 | 100.0% | Native | 964,771 | 97.7% | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 17,924 | 6.5% | Born in United States | 960,402 | 97.3% | |
| Kindergarten | 15,192 | 5.5% | State of residence | 777,873 | 78.8% | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 118,838 | 43.0% | Different state | 182,529 | 18.5% | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 58,961 | 21.3% | Born outside United States | 4,369 | 0.4% | |
| College or graduate school | 65,512 | 23.7% | Foreign born | 22,634 | 2.3% | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 8,649 | 0.9% | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 11,957 | 1.2% | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 633,414 | 100.0% | Not a citizen | 10,677 | 1.1% | |
| Less than 9th grade | 25,944 | 4.1% | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 76,459 | 12.1% | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 240,044 | 37.9% | Total (excluding born at sea) | 22,634 | 100.0% | |
| Some college, no degree | 130,440 | 20.6% | Europe | 6,225 | 27.5% | |
| Associate degree | 43,786 | 6.9% | Asia | 8,585 | 37.9% | |
| Bachelor's degree | 75,779 | 12.0% | Africa | 892 | 3.9% | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 40,962 | 6.5% | Oceania | 101 | 0.4% | |
| Latin America | 4,807 | 21.2% | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.8% | (X) | Northern America | 2,024 | 8.9% | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.4% | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 923,259 | 100.0% | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 777,455 | 100.0% | English only | 869,547 | 94.2% | |
| Never married | 207,616 | 26.7% | Language other than English | 53,712 | 5.8% | |
| Now married, except separated | 421,293 | 54.2% | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16,432 | 1.8% | |
| Separated | 10,849 | 1.4% | Spanish | 27,258 | 3.0% | |
| Widowed | 55,152 | 7.1% | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8,582 | 0.9% | |
| Female | 45,110 | 5.8% | Other Indo-European languages | 16,719 | 1.8% | |
| Divorced | 82,545 | 10.6% | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,143 | 0.4% | |
| Female | 45,135 | 5.8% | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5,416 | 0.6% | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,569 | 0.3% | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 987,405 | 100 | |||
| under 18 years | 15,265 | 100.0% | Total ancestries reported | 1,036,543 | 105.0% | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 7,269 | 47.6% | Arab | 6,537 | 0.7% | |
| Czech¹ | 5,615 | 0.6% | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2,012 | 0.2% | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 732,635 | 100.0% | Dutch | 18,196 | 1.8% | |
| Civilian veterans | 96,136 | 13.1% | English | 80,590 | 8.2% | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 42,064 | 4.3% | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6,742 | 0.7% | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 333,365 | 33.8% | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 235,683 | 100.0% | Greek | 3,775 | 0.4% | |
| With a disability | 20,269 | 8.6% | Hungarian | 18,168 | 1.8% | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 552,491 | 100.0% | Irish¹ | 109,982 | 11.1% | |
| With a disability | 97,543 | 17.7% | Italian | 34,357 | 3.5% | |
| Percent employed | 58.6% | (X) | Lithuanian | 827 | 0.1% | |
| No disability | 454,948 | 83 | Norwegian | 3,626 | 0.4% | |
| Percent employed | 80.5% | (X) | Polish | 65,442 | 6.6% | |
| Population 65 years and over | 123,787 | 100.0% | Portuguese | 509 | 0.1% | |
| With a disability | 51,365 | 41.5% | Russian | 3,886 | 0.4% | |
| Scotch-Irish | 10,234 | 1.0% | ||||
| Scottish | 14,831 | 1.5% | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4,924 | 0.5% | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 923,259 | 100.0% | Subsaharan African | 4,081 | 0.4% | |
| Same house in 1995 | 543,611 | 58.9% | Swedish | 6,683 | 0.7% | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 371,881 | 40.3% | Swiss | 6,788 | 0.7% | |
| Same county | 238,281 | 25.8% | Ukrainian | 1,872 | 0.2% | |
| Different county | 133,600 | 14.5% | United States or American | 63,502 | 6.4% | |
| Same state | 85,168 | 9.2% | Welsh | 7,293 | 0.7% | |
| Different state | 48,432 | 5.2% | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 754 | 0.1% | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 7,767 | 0.8% | Other ancestries | 179,888 | 18.2% | |
| Date: September 20, 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. | ||||||