DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Allen 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 | 108,473 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 28,722 | 100.0 | Native | 107,336 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,603 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 106,844 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,648 | 5.7 | State of residence | 88,376 | 81.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 13,136 | 45.7 | Different state | 18,468 | 17.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,921 | 24.1 | Born outside United States | 492 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 5,414 | 18.8 | Foreign born | 1,137 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 335 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 652 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 69,669 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 485 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,080 | 4.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,110 | 13.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 29,666 | 42.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,137 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 13,016 | 18.7 | Europe | 319 | 28.1 | |
| Associate degree | 5,437 | 7.8 | Asia | 404 | 35.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,891 | 8.5 | Africa | 88 | 7.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,469 | 5.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 196 | 17.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.5 | (X) | Northern America | 130 | 11.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 101,269 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 85,295 | 100.0 | English only | 97,817 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 22,205 | 26.0 | Language other than English | 3,452 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 46,069 | 54.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,057 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 1,139 | 1.3 | Spanish | 1,705 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 6,590 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 560 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 5,353 | 6.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,198 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 9,292 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 369 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 4,842 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 444 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 109 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 108,473 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,644 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 100,857 | 93.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 822 | 50.0 | Arab | 86 | 0.1 | |
| Czech� | 213 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 58 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 80,362 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,315 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 11,358 | 14.1 | English | 7,842 | 7.2 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 2,385 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 333 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 32,835 | 30.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 26,229 | 100.0 | Greek | 160 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,849 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 286 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 56,252 | 100.0 | Irish� | 11,871 | 10.9 | |
| With a disability | 10,455 | 18.6 | Italian | 3,295 | 3.0 | |
| Percent employed | 56.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 75 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 45,797 | 81.4 | Norwegian | 325 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 77.8 | (X) | Polish | 1,004 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 14,131 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 48 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,797 | 41.0 | Russian | 249 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,117 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,597 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 129 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 101,269 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 846 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 59,509 | 58.8 | Swedish | 456 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 41,150 | 40.6 | Swiss | 1,526 | 1.4 | |
| Same county | 27,586 | 27.2 | Ukrainian | 116 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 13,564 | 13.4 | United States or American | 11,105 | 10.2 | |
| Same state | 8,839 | 8.7 | Welsh | 1,935 | 1.8 | |
| Different state | 4,725 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 49 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 610 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 18,601 | 17.1 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Communication System (ECS), Division of Health Communication and Marketing (DHCM), National Center for Health Marketing (NCHM)
