General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:1740416, place: Knoxville city, Illinois)SCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and over enrolled in school: 771 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 42 (5.45%)
Kindergarten: 5 (0.65%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 371 (48.12%)
High school (grades 9-12): 182 (23.61%)
College or graduate school: 171 (22.18%)
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTPopulation 25 years and over: 2,224 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 177 (7.96%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 233 (10.48%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 779 (35.03%)
Some college, no degree: 512 (23.02%)
Associate degree: 214 (9.62%)
Bachelor's degree: 215 (9.67%)
Graduate or professional degree: 94 (4.23%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 81.6%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 13.9%
MARITIAL STATUSPopulation 15 years and over: 2,575 (100%)
Never married: 423 (16.43%)
Now married, except separated: 1,733 (67.3%)
Separated: 27 (1.05%)
Total Widowed: 167 (6.49%)
Widowed Female: 130 (5.05%)
Total Divorced: 225 (8.74%)
Divorced Female: 139 (5.4%)
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERSGrandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 26 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 7 (26.92%)
VETERAN STATUSCivilian population 18 years and over: 2,439 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 325 (13.33%)
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATIONPopulation 5 to 20 years: 630 (100%)
--With a disability: 5 (0.79%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,614 (100%)
--With a disability: 212 (13.14%)
----Percent employed: 46.2%
--No disability: 1,402 (86.86%)
----Percent employed: 82.6%
Population 65 years and over: 512 (100%)
--With a disability: 188 (36.72%)
RESIDENCE IN 1995Population 5 years and over: 2,971 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 1,972 (66.37%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 999 (33.63%)
--Same county: 735 (24.74%)
--Different county: 264 (8.89%)
----Same state: 168 (5.65%)
----Different state: 96 (3.23%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 0 (0%)
NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTHTotal population: 3,166 (100%)
Native: 3,146 (99.37%)
--Born in United States: 3,139 (100%)
----State of residence: 2,711 (85.63%)
----Different state: 428 (13.52%)
--Born outside United States: 7 (0.22%)
Foreign born: 20 (0.63%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 0 (0%)
--Naturalized citizen: 14 (0.44%)
--Not a citizen: 6 (0.19%)
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORNTotal (excluding born at sea): 20 (100%)
Europe: 0 (0%)
Asia: 6 (30%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 6 (30%)
Northern America: 8 (40%)
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOMEPopulation 5 years and over: 2,971 (100%)
English only: 2,922 (98.35%)
Language other than English: 49 (1.65%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 17 (0.57%)
--Spanish: 31 (1.04%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 9 (0.3%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 12 (0.4%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 8 (0.27%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 6 (0.2%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
ANCESTRY (single or multiple)Total population: 3,166 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,838% (89.64%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 11 (0.35%)
Dutch: 87 (2.75%)
English: 566 (17.88%)
French (except Basque): 64 (2.02%)
French Canadian: 16 (0.51%)
German: 604 (19.08%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 283 (8.94%)
Italian: 53 (1.67%)
Lithuanian: 5 (0.16%)
Norwegian: 91 (2.87%)
Polish: 36 (1.14%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 15 (0.47%)
Scotch-Irish: 61 (1.93%)
Scottish: 34 (1.07%)
Slovak: 3 (0.09%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 357 (11.28%)
Swiss: 7 (0.22%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 301 (9.51%)
Welsh: 21 (0.66%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 223 (7.04%)
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