
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Madison 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 | 27,467 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 15,041 | 100.0 | Native | 26,492 | 96.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 416 | 2.8 | Born in United States | 26,247 | 95.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 308 | 2.0 | State of residence | 14,811 | 53.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,194 | 21.2 | Different state | 11,436 | 41.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,707 | 11.3 | Born outside United States | 245 | 0.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 9,416 | 62.6 | Foreign born | 975 | 3.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 415 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 254 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,320 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 721 | 2.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 419 | 4.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 656 | 7.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,078 | 22.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 975 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,536 | 27.2 | Europe | 96 | 9.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,354 | 14.5 | Asia | 74 | 7.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,345 | 14.4 | Africa | 12 | 1.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 932 | 10.0 | Oceania | 21 | 2.2 | |
| Latin America | 521 | 53.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.5 | (X) | Northern America | 251 | 25.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 24.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 25,504 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 21,645 | 100.0 | English only | 23,338 | 91.5 | |
| Never married | 10,826 | 50.0 | Language other than English | 2,166 | 8.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,360 | 43.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 541 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 83 | 0.4 | Spanish | 1,450 | 5.7 | |
| Widowed | 648 | 3.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 427 | 1.7 | |
| Female | 539 | 2.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 548 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 728 | 3.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 68 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 445 | 2.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 136 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 27,467 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 170 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 28,966 | 105.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 60 | 35.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 87 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,904 | 6.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 20,263 | 100.0 | Dutch | 362 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,025 | 5.1 | English | 8,501 | 30.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 437 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 57 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,290 | 12.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 12,250 | 100.0 | Greek | 49 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 633 | 5.2 | Hungarian | 56 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,488 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,093 | 4.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,122 | 9.8 | Italian | 365 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 60.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,366 | 90.2 | Norwegian | 929 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 73.4 | (X) | Polish | 129 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,570 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 30 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 691 | 44.0 | Russian | 96 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 367 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,427 | 5.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 25,504 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,078 | 39.5 | Swedish | 1,511 | 5.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,948 | 58.6 | Swiss | 722 | 2.6 | |
| Same county | 3,429 | 13.4 | Ukrainian | 66 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 11,519 | 45.2 | United States or American | 2,156 | 7.8 | |
| Same state | 4,256 | 16.7 | Welsh | 629 | 2.3 | |
| Different state | 7,263 | 28.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 478 | 1.9 | Other ancestries | 4,644 | 16.9 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

