DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hancock 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 | 6,786 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,401 | 100.0 | Native | 6,769 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 67 | 4.8 | Born in United States | 6,758 | 99.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 5.3 | State of residence | 5,149 | 75.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 697 | 49.8 | Different state | 1,609 | 23.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 447 | 31.9 | Born outside United States | 11 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 116 | 8.3 | Foreign born | 17 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 15 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,617 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,220 | 26.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 814 | 17.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,477 | 32.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 17 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 513 | 11.1 | Europe | 4 | 23.5 | |
| Associate degree | 124 | 2.7 | Asia | 13 | 76.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 240 | 5.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 229 | 5.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 55.9 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,433 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,540 | 100.0 | English only | 6,334 | 98.5 | |
| Never married | 1,161 | 21.0 | Language other than English | 99 | 1.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,152 | 56.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.3 | |
| Separated | 118 | 2.1 | Spanish | 57 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 521 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 455 | 8.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 42 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 588 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 282 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 6,786 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 99 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,949 | 58.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 47 | 47.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech� | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 13 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,214 | 100.0 | Dutch | 35 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 513 | 9.8 | English | 471 | 6.9 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 23 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 300 | 4.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,437 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 144 | 10.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,796 | 100.0 | Irish� | 416 | 6.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,209 | 31.8 | Italian | 53 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 39.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,587 | 68.2 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 69.3 | (X) | Polish | 45 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,036 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 14 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 663 | 64.0 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 197 | 2.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 57 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,433 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,566 | 71.0 | Swedish | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,828 | 28.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,063 | 16.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 765 | 11.9 | United States or American | 1,764 | 26.0 | |
| Same state | 434 | 6.7 | Welsh | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 331 | 5.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 39 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 537 | 7.9 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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