DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Switzerland 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 | 9,065 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,017 | 100.0 | Native | 9,020 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 81 | 4.0 | Born in United States | 8,989 | 99.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 3.5 | State of residence | 5,516 | 60.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,130 | 56.0 | Different state | 3,473 | 38.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 552 | 27.4 | Born outside United States | 31 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 184 | 9.1 | Foreign born | 45 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 18 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,889 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 27 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 556 | 9.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,129 | 19.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,617 | 44.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 45 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 958 | 16.3 | Europe | 13 | 28.9 | |
| Associate degree | 180 | 3.1 | Asia | 18 | 40.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 259 | 4.4 | Africa | 8 | 17.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 190 | 3.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 6 | 13.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,501 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,122 | 100.0 | English only | 8,246 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 1,472 | 20.7 | Language other than English | 255 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,332 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.3 | |
| Separated | 40 | 0.6 | Spanish | 59 | 0.7 | |
| Widowed | 449 | 6.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 348 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 182 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 829 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 392 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,065 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 185 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,061 | 77.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 100 | 54.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech� | 11 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,691 | 100.0 | Dutch | 147 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 947 | 14.2 | English | 603 | 6.7 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 169 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,598 | 17.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,133 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 226 | 10.6 | Hungarian | 24 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,213 | 100.0 | Irish� | 1,120 | 12.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,015 | 19.5 | Italian | 130 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 51.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 4,198 | 80.5 | Norwegian | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 76.3 | (X) | Polish | 53 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,077 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 448 | 41.6 | Russian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 110 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 146 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,501 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,082 | 59.8 | Swedish | 24 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,416 | 40.2 | Swiss | 51 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 1,592 | 18.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,824 | 21.5 | United States or American | 2,054 | 22.7 | |
| Same state | 1,002 | 11.8 | Welsh | 41 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 822 | 9.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 3 | 0.0 | Other ancestries | 722 | 8.0 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| � 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. | ||||||
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