DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Dodge County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 19,171 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,906 | 100.0 | Native | 18,896 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 388 | 7.9 | Born in United States | 18,828 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 269 | 5.5 | State of residence | 16,541 | 86.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,461 | 50.2 | Different state | 2,287 | 11.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,233 | 25.1 | Born outside United States | 68 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 555 | 11.3 | Foreign born | 275 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 159 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 118 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,501 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 157 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,580 | 12.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,634 | 21.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,577 | 36.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 275 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,749 | 14.0 | Europe | 31 | 11.3 | |
| Associate degree | 512 | 4.1 | Asia | 67 | 24.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 852 | 6.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 597 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 141 | 51.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.3 | (X) | Northern America | 36 | 13.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 17,996 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 15,232 | 100.0 | English only | 17,489 | 97.2 | |
| Never married | 3,894 | 25.6 | Language other than English | 507 | 2.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,561 | 49.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 209 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 456 | 3.0 | Spanish | 305 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,601 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 158 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,320 | 8.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 156 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,720 | 11.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 739 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 40 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 19,171 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 373 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 13,532 | 70.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 237 | 63.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 14,183 | 100.0 | Dutch | 40 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,726 | 12.2 | English | 1,167 | 6.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 125 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 9 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 322 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,238 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 271 | 6.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,855 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 876 | 4.6 | |
| With a disability | 2,761 | 28.0 | Italian | 134 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 49.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,094 | 72.0 | Norwegian | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 77.4 | (X) | Polish | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,372 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,428 | 60.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 211 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 162 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 17,996 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 121 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,675 | 59.3 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,186 | 39.9 | Swiss | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 4,253 | 23.6 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,933 | 16.3 | United States or American | 4,316 | 22.5 | |
| Same state | 2,297 | 12.8 | Welsh | 59 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 636 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 135 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 5,887 | 30.7 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (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. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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