
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Emmet 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 | 11,027 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,916 | 100.0 | Native | 10,777 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 144 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 10,760 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 134 | 4.6 | State of residence | 7,790 | 70.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,209 | 41.5 | Different state | 2,970 | 26.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 816 | 28.0 | Born outside United States | 17 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 613 | 21.0 | Foreign born | 250 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 157 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 72 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,265 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 178 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 503 | 6.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 792 | 10.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,616 | 36.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 250 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,784 | 24.6 | Europe | 24 | 9.6 | |
| Associate degree | 623 | 8.6 | Asia | 11 | 4.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 694 | 9.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 253 | 3.5 | Oceania | 2 | 0.8 | |
| Latin America | 213 | 85.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.2 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,438 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,996 | 100.0 | English only | 9,881 | 94.7 | |
| Never married | 2,291 | 25.5 | Language other than English | 557 | 5.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,128 | 57.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 244 | 2.3 | |
| Separated | 87 | 1.0 | Spanish | 480 | 4.6 | |
| Widowed | 828 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 218 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 727 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 60 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 662 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 359 | 4.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,027 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 97 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,272 | 111.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 56 | 57.7 | Arab | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 148 | 1.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 746 | 6.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,400 | 100.0 | Dutch | 461 | 4.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,128 | 13.4 | English | 643 | 5.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 306 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 19 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,174 | 37.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,547 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 188 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,602 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,117 | 10.1 | |
| With a disability | 718 | 12.8 | Italian | 72 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 69.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 4,884 | 87.2 | Norwegian | 2,206 | 20.0 | |
| Percent employed | 85.0 | (X) | Polish | 120 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,911 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 791 | 41.4 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 173 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 120 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,438 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,398 | 61.3 | Swedish | 505 | 4.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,963 | 38.0 | Swiss | 37 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,349 | 22.5 | Ukrainian | 40 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 1,614 | 15.5 | United States or American | 438 | 4.0 | |
| Same state | 816 | 7.8 | Welsh | 52 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 798 | 7.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 77 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 859 | 7.8 | |
| 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)

