
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Marshall 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 | 39,311 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,625 | 100.0 | Native | 36,716 | 93.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 526 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 36,577 | 93.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 608 | 6.3 | State of residence | 29,508 | 75.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,598 | 47.8 | Different state | 7,069 | 18.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,577 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 139 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,316 | 13.7 | Foreign born | 2,595 | 6.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,425 | 3.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 576 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 26,179 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,019 | 5.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,044 | 7.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,593 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,745 | 37.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,595 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,497 | 21.0 | Europe | 178 | 6.9 | |
| Associate degree | 1,841 | 7.0 | Asia | 245 | 9.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,282 | 12.5 | Africa | 69 | 2.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,177 | 4.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2,075 | 80.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.3 | (X) | Northern America | 28 | 1.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 36,808 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 31,204 | 100.0 | English only | 32,906 | 89.4 | |
| Never married | 6,688 | 21.4 | Language other than English | 3,902 | 10.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 18,709 | 60.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,157 | 5.9 | |
| Separated | 409 | 1.3 | Spanish | 3,113 | 8.5 | |
| Widowed | 2,238 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,828 | 5.0 | |
| Female | 1,796 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 374 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 3,160 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 106 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,716 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 315 | 0.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 168 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 39,311 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 555 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 39,813 | 101.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 229 | 41.3 | Arab | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 908 | 2.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 642 | 1.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 29,356 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,212 | 3.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,452 | 15.2 | English | 4,274 | 10.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 940 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 79 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 12,184 | 31.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,965 | 100.0 | Greek | 61 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 797 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 52 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 21,092 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,122 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 3,360 | 15.9 | Italian | 488 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 62.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 17,732 | 84.1 | Norwegian | 2,912 | 7.4 | |
| Percent employed | 82.5 | (X) | Polish | 311 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,606 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 33 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,056 | 36.7 | Russian | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 570 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 465 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 25 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 36,808 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 107 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 21,237 | 57.7 | Swedish | 992 | 2.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,816 | 40.3 | Swiss | 171 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 8,789 | 23.9 | Ukrainian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,027 | 16.4 | United States or American | 3,202 | 8.1 | |
| Same state | 3,294 | 8.9 | Welsh | 246 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 2,733 | 7.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 755 | 2.1 | Other ancestries | 5,755 | 14.6 | |
| 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)

