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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: Peoria 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

49,942

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

3,946

7.9

Kindergarten

2,939

5.9

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

21,073

42.2

High school (grades 9-12)

9,541

19.1

College or graduate school

12,443

24.9

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

118,498

100.0

Less than 9th grade

6,585

5.6

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

12,571

10.6

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

34,920

29.5

Some college, no degree

28,375

23.9

Associate degree

8,386

7.1

Bachelor's degree

18,049

15.2

Graduate or professional degree

9,612

8.1

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

83.8

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

23.3

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

144,925

100.0

Never married

40,462

27.9

Now married, except separated

76,728

52.9

Separated

2,302

1.6

Widowed

10,390

7.2

Female

8,542

5.9

Divorced

15,043

10.4

Female

8,594

5.9

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

2,848

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

1,488

52.2

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

137,175

100.0

Civilian veterans

18,433

13.4

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

41,626

100.0

With a disability

3,550

8.5

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

101,817

100.0

With a disability

16,665

16.4

Percent employed

53.3

(X)

No disability

85,152

83.6

Percent employed

78.4

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

24,336

100.0

With a disability

9,351

38.4

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

170,926

100.0

Same house in 1995

93,915

54.9

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

74,881

43.8

Same county

48,576

28.4

Different county

26,305

15.4

Same state

16,144

9.4

Different state

10,161

5.9

Elsewhere in 1995

2,130

1.2

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

183,433

100.0

Native

177,608

96.8

Born in United States

176,670

96.3

State of residence

139,380

76.0

Different state

37,290

20.3

Born outside United States

938

0.5

Foreign born

5,825

3.2

Entered 1990 to March 2000

2,682

1.5

Naturalized citizen

2,768

1.5

Not a citizen

3,057

1.7

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

5,825

100.0

Europe

1,203

20.7

Asia

2,906

49.9

Africa

259

4.4

Oceania

6

0.1

Latin America

1,188

20.4

Northern America

263

4.5

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

170,926

100.0

English only

160,741

94.0

Language other than English

10,185

6.0

Speak English less than 'very well

3,416

2.0

Spanish

3,969

2.3

Speak English less than "very well"

1,510

0.9

Other Indo-European languages

3,444

2.0

Speak English less than "very well"

853

0.5

Asian and Pacific Island languages

1,720

1.0

Speak English less than "very well"

788

0.5

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

183,433

100.0

Total ancestries reported

186,997

101.9

Arab

1,962

1.1

Czech1

806

0.4

Danish

724

0.4

Dutch

3,410

1.9

English

19,333

10.5

French (except Basque)1

4,810

2.6

French Canadian1

666

0.4

German

47,120

25.7

Greek

608

0.3

Hungarian

600

0.3

Irish1

24,018

13.1

Italian

5,758

3.1

Lithuanian

373

0.2

Norwegian

2,167

1.2

Polish

3,516

1.9

Portuguese

153

0.1

Russian

632

0.3

Scotch-Irish

2,592

1.4

Scottish

3,131

1.7

Slovak

198

0.1

Subsaharan African

1,328

0.7

Swedish

4,157

2.3

Swiss

1,127

0.6

Ukrainian

205

0.1

United States or American

12,829

7.0

Welsh

1,015

0.6

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

89

0.0

Other ancestries

43,670

23.8

(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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