Demographic Profile of Senior in Wayne County, Michigan

Table 29. Educational Attainment of the Population 65+ by Sector, 2000
Sectors
Percent High
School Grad or
higher
Some College,
no degree
Percent College
Grad or higher
1 43.8 11.7 3.7
2 43.9 10.1 3.3
3 44.7 12.2 5.8
4 44.5 11.8 12.3
5 36.3 8.3 2.9
6 47.3 14.8 8.4
7 46.6 11.8 4.0
8 52.8 13.0 10.5
9 47.3 14.4 5.1
10 63.4 19.7 17.3
11 42.1 7.3 5.2
12 81.3 19.9 33.3
Region Totals 50.0 15.4 9.7
The last variable we will look at is the language that the elderly speak at home and, if it is
other than English, their perceived ability to speak English.
Table 30. Language Spoken by the Population 65+ by Sector, 2000
Sectors
Persons 65
years and
over
Only
English
Percent of
total
Spanish
Indo
European
Asian and
Pacific
Other
% of Other
Language
Speakers who
Speak English
not well, not at
all
1 9,988 8,821 88.3 41 812 39 275 4.7
2 6,018 5,429 90.2 21 455 91 22 2.2
3 14,081 13,485 95.8 55 495 25 21 0.6
4 9,822 9,349 95.2 191 157 72 53 1.0
5 8,208 6,064 73.9 1,134 778 24 208 8.2
6 13,630 13,374 98.1 94 122 32 8 0.3
7 10,897 9,441 86.6 242 1,040 32 142 1.6
8 6,925 6,548 94.6 69 240 6 62 0.8
9 10,149 9,925 97.8 83 89 26 26 0.2
10 9,940 9,670 97.3 127 83 33 27 0.4
11 5,237 3,737 71.4 110 1,267 5 118 9.1
12 10,529 9,274 88.1 100 1,035 11 109 2.0
It is the general rule that at least 90 percent of the residents of each sector speak English
at home. This is the case in all sectors with the exception of 5 and 11. As discussed in
the section on education, Sector 5’s elderly population contains a large number of Latino
immigrants with little education. In addition, southwest Detroit also contains older
eastern European immigrants and residents from the Middle East. These factors
combined to produce 26 percent of the elderly speaking a language other than English
and 8 percent of the total 65 years admitting to speaking English less than well or not at
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