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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: Berrien County, Michigan

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

42,978

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

2,690

6.3

Kindergarten

2,293

5.3

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

20,160

46.9

High school (grades 9-12)

9,617

22.4

College or graduate school

8,218

19.1

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

106,690

100.0

Less than 9th grade

6,065

5.7

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

13,219

12.4

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

33,998

31.9

Some college, no degree

24,234

22.7

Associate degree

8,244

7.7

Bachelor's degree

13,031

12.2

Graduate or professional degree

7,899

7.4

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

81.9

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

19.6

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

127,596

100.0

Never married

32,665

25.6

Now married, except separated

69,769

54.7

Separated

2,206

1.7

Widowed

9,634

7.6

Female

7,971

6.2

Divorced

13,322

10.4

Female

7,403

5.8

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

3,185

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

1,470

46.2

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

120,280

100.0

Civilian veterans

16,345

13.6

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

37,869

100.0

With a disability

3,361

8.9

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

89,566

100.0

With a disability

17,250

19.3

Percent employed

60.2

(X)

No disability

72,316

80.7

Percent employed

79.1

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

22,830

100.0

With a disability

9,690

42.4

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

151,825

100.0

Same house in 1995

87,551

57.7

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

61,253

40.3

Same county

40,147

26.4

Different county

21,106

13.9

Same state

6,112

4.0

Different state

14,994

9.9

Elsewhere in 1995

3,021

2.0

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

162,453

100.0

Native

154,562

95.1

Born in United States

153,556

94.5

State of residence

93,890

57.8

Different state

59,666

36.7

Born outside United States

1,006

0.6

Foreign born

7,891

4.9

Entered 1990 to March 2000

3,642

2.2

Naturalized citizen

3,029

1.9

Not a citizen

4,862

3.0

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

7,891

100.0

Europe

2,139

27.1

Asia

1,476

18.7

Africa

970

12.3

Oceania

43

0.5

Latin America

2,629

33.3

Northern America

634

8.0

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

151,825

100.0

English only

141,013

92.9

Language other than English

10,812

7.1

Speak English less than 'very well

3,776

2.5

Spanish

4,547

3.0

Speak English less than "very well"

1,907

1.3

Other Indo-European languages

4,215

2.8

Speak English less than "very well"

1,195

0.8

Asian and Pacific Island languages

1,224

0.8

Speak English less than "very well"

497

0.3

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

162,453

100.0

Total ancestries reported

173,914

107.1

Arab

312

0.2

Czech1

1,776

1.1

Danish

926

0.6

Dutch

5,510

3.4

English

15,293

9.4

French (except Basque)1

5,313

3.3

French Canadian1

1,212

0.7

German

43,563

26.8

Greek

390

0.2

Hungarian

1,392

0.9

Irish1

17,750

10.9

Italian

5,766

3.5

Lithuanian

666

0.4

Norwegian

1,570

1.0

Polish

7,794

4.8

Portuguese

132

0.1

Russian

1,214

0.7

Scotch-Irish

1,861

1.1

Scottish

2,340

1.4

Slovak

316

0.2

Subsaharan African

2,129

1.3

Swedish

3,442

2.1

Swiss

484

0.3

Ukrainian

385

0.2

United States or American

11,364

7.0

Welsh

952

0.6

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

886

0.5

Other ancestries

39,176

24.1

(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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