Cerro Gordo, IL

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:1712268, place: Cerro Gordo village, Illinois)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 416 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 30 (7.21%)
Kindergarten: 19 (4.57%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 201 (48.32%)
High school (grades 9-12): 98 (23.56%)
College or graduate school: 68 (16.35%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 905 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 30 (3.31%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 68 (7.51%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 430 (47.51%)
Some college, no degree: 198 (21.88%)
Associate degree: 84 (9.28%)
Bachelor's degree: 72 (7.96%)
Graduate or professional degree: 23 (2.54%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 89.2%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 10.5%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,103 (100%)
Never married: 217 (19.67%)
Now married, except separated: 655 (59.38%)
Separated: 8 (0.73%)
Total Widowed: 88 (7.98%)
Widowed Female: 67 (6.07%)
Total Divorced: 135 (12.24%)
Divorced Female: 73 (6.62%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 17 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 11 (64.71%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,026 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 158 (15.4%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 383 (100%)
--With a disability: 23 (6.01%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 770 (100%)
--With a disability: 78 (10.13%)
----Percent employed: 57.7%
--No disability: 692 (89.87%)
----Percent employed: 84.4%
Population 65 years and over: 193 (100%)
--With a disability: 81 (41.97%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,349 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 834 (61.82%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 515 (38.18%)
--Same county: 210 (15.57%)
--Different county: 305 (22.61%)
----Same state: 271 (20.09%)
----Different state: 34 (2.52%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 0 (0%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,439 (100%)
Native: 1,439 (100%)
--Born in United States: 1,437 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,232 (85.62%)
----Different state: 205 (14.25%)
--Born outside United States: 2 (0.14%)
Foreign born: 0 (0%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 0 (0%)
--Naturalized citizen: 0 (0%)
--Not a citizen: 0 (0%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 0
Europe: 0
Asia: 0
Africa: 0
Oceania: 0
Latin America: 0
Northern America: 0

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,349 (100%)
English only: 1,325 (98.22%)
Language other than English: 24 (1.78%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 7 (0.52%)
--Spanish: 9 (0.67%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 2 (0.15%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 15 (1.11%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 5 (0.37%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,439 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,235% (85.82%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 10 (0.69%)
Dutch: 56 (3.89%)
English: 178 (12.37%)
French (except Basque): 40 (2.78%)
French Canadian: 11 (0.76%)
German: 409 (28.42%)
Greek: 8 (0.56%)
Hungarian: 8 (0.56%)
Irish: 147 (10.22%)
Italian: 20 (1.39%)
Lithuanian: 6 (0.42%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 12 (0.83%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 1 (0.07%)
Scotch-Irish: 58 (4.03%)
Scottish: 26 (1.81%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 12 (0.83%)
Swiss: 9 (0.63%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 105 (7.3%)
Welsh: 5 (0.35%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 114 (7.92%)

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