General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:1728638, place: Gardner village, Illinois)SCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and over enrolled in school: 344 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 36 (10.47%)
Kindergarten: 17 (4.94%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 184 (53.49%)
High school (grades 9-12): 72 (20.93%)
College or graduate school: 35 (10.17%)
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTPopulation 25 years and over: 886 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 47 (5.3%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 99 (11.17%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 372 (41.99%)
Some college, no degree: 223 (25.17%)
Associate degree: 64 (7.22%)
Bachelor's degree: 60 (6.77%)
Graduate or professional degree: 21 (2.37%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 83.5%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 9.1%
MARITIAL STATUSPopulation 15 years and over: 1,047 (100%)
Never married: 214 (20.44%)
Now married, except separated: 625 (59.69%)
Separated: 8 (0.76%)
Total Widowed: 72 (6.88%)
Widowed Female: 59 (5.64%)
Total Divorced: 128 (12.23%)
Divorced Female: 66 (6.3%)
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERSGrandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 9 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 6 (66.67%)
VETERAN STATUSCivilian population 18 years and over: 995 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 131 (13.17%)
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATIONPopulation 5 to 20 years: 307 (100%)
--With a disability: 18 (5.86%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 809 (100%)
--With a disability: 109 (13.47%)
----Percent employed: 56%
--No disability: 700 (86.53%)
----Percent employed: 76.9%
Population 65 years and over: 147 (100%)
--With a disability: 66 (44.9%)
RESIDENCE IN 1995Population 5 years and over: 1,263 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 829 (65.64%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 428 (33.89%)
--Same county: 255 (20.19%)
--Different county: 173 (13.7%)
----Same state: 151 (11.96%)
----Different state: 22 (1.74%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 6 (0.48%)
NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTHTotal population: 1,392 (100%)
Native: 1,357 (97.49%)
--Born in United States: 1,353 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,182 (84.91%)
----Different state: 171 (12.28%)
--Born outside United States: 4 (0.29%)
Foreign born: 35 (2.51%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 17 (1.22%)
--Naturalized citizen: 19 (1.36%)
--Not a citizen: 16 (1.15%)
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORNTotal (excluding born at sea): 35 (100%)
Europe: 8 (22.86%)
Asia: 0 (0%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 25 (71.43%)
Northern America: 2 (5.71%)
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOMEPopulation 5 years and over: 1,263 (100%)
English only: 1,201 (95.09%)
Language other than English: 62 (4.91%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 19 (1.5%)
--Spanish: 46 (3.64%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 19 (1.5%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 16 (1.27%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
ANCESTRY (single or multiple)Total population: 1,392 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,631% (117.17%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 24 (1.72%)
Danish: 56 (4.02%)
Dutch: 23 (1.65%)
English: 160 (11.49%)
French (except Basque): 48 (3.45%)
French Canadian: 8 (0.57%)
German: 311 (22.34%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 2 (0.14%)
Irish: 257 (18.46%)
Italian: 238 (17.1%)
Lithuanian: 14 (1.01%)
Norwegian: 101 (7.26%)
Polish: 75 (5.39%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 25 (1.8%)
Scottish: 36 (2.59%)
Slovak: 4 (0.29%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 44 (3.16%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 70 (5.03%)
Welsh: 4 (0.29%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 131 (9.41%)
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