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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: Edwards County, Illinois

NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Subject

Number

Percent

 

 

 

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

 

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school

1,626

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

109

6.7

Kindergarten

75

4.6

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

737

45.3

High school (grades 9-12)

408

25.1

College or graduate school

297

18.3

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

4,815

100.0

Less than 9th grade

334

6.9

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

518

10.8

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

1,875

38.9

Some college, no degree

1,153

23.9

Associate degree

463

9.6

Bachelor's degree

331

6.9

Graduate or professional degree

141

2.9

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

82.3

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

9.8

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

5,662

100.0

Never married

978

17.3

Now married, except separated

3,604

63.7

Separated

44

0.8

Widowed

494

8.7

Female

418

7.4

Divorced

542

9.6

Female

300

5.3

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years

62

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

26

41.9

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

5,363

100.0

Civilian veterans

769

14.3

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

1,459

100.0

With a disability

135

9.3

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

3,833

100.0

With a disability

693

18.1

Percent employed

52.2

(X)

No disability

3,140

81.9

Percent employed

82.3

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

1,247

100.0

With a disability

517

41.5

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

6,581

100.0

Same house in 1995

4,554

69.2

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

2,025

30.8

Same county

1,037

15.8

Different county

988

15.0

Same state

806

12.2

Different state

182

2.8

Elsewhere in 1995

2

0.0

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

6,971

100.0

Native

6,944

99.6

Born in United States

6,896

98.9

State of residence

5,126

73.5

Different state

1,770

25.4

Born outside United States

48

0.7

Foreign born

27

0.4

Entered 1990 to March 2000

9

0.1

Naturalized citizen

17

0.2

Not a citizen

10

0.1

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

27

100.0

Europe

10

37.0

Asia

14

51.9

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

3

11.1

Northern America

0

0.0

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

6,581

100.0

English only

6,489

98.6

Language other than English

92

1.4

Speak English less than 'very well

18

0.3

Spanish

59

0.9

Speak English less than "very well"

6

0.1

Other Indo-European languages

25

0.4

Speak English less than "very well"

12

0.2

Asian and Pacific Island languages

0

0.0

Speak English less than "very well"

0

0.0

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

6,971

100.0

Total ancestries reported

5,859

84.0

Arab

0

0.0

Czech1

6

0.1

Danish

0

0.0

Dutch

112

1.6

English

1,648

23.6

French (except Basque)1

122

1.8

French Canadian1

10

0.1

German

1,359

19.5

Greek

0

0.0

Hungarian

0

0.0

Irish1

533

7.6

Italian

47

0.7

Lithuanian

0

0.0

Norwegian

7

0.1

Polish

54

0.8

Portuguese

0

0.0

Russian

0

0.0

Scotch-Irish

78

1.1

Scottish

81

1.2

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

0

0.0

Swedish

30

0.4

Swiss

9

0.1

Ukrainian

0

0.0

United States or American

1,265

18.1

Welsh

53

0.8

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

7

0.1

Other ancestries

438

6.3

(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.
Ancestry Code List (PDF 35KB)
Place of Birth Code List (PDF 74KB)
Language Code List (PDF 17KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P18, P19, P21, P22, P24, P36, P37, P39, P42, PCT8, PCT16, PCT17, and PCT19



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