
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Monona 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 | 10,020 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,215 | 100.0 | Native | 9,976 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 168 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 9,953 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 4.7 | State of residence | 7,940 | 79.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,149 | 51.9 | Different state | 2,013 | 20.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 597 | 27.0 | Born outside United States | 23 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 197 | 8.9 | Foreign born | 44 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 17 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 29 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,072 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 592 | 8.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 703 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,031 | 42.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 44 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,431 | 20.2 | Europe | 23 | 52.3 | |
| Associate degree | 364 | 5.1 | Asia | 7 | 15.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 735 | 10.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 216 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 14 | 31.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,484 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,163 | 100.0 | English only | 9,317 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 1,526 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 167 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,738 | 58.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 65 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 64 | 0.8 | Spanish | 125 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 1,091 | 13.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 896 | 11.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 25 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 744 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 342 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,020 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 106 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,216 | 111.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 51 | 48.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 125 | 1.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 688 | 6.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,673 | 100.0 | Dutch | 273 | 2.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,266 | 16.5 | English | 1,166 | 11.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 335 | 3.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 78 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,573 | 35.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,071 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 120 | 5.8 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,987 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,788 | 17.8 | |
| With a disability | 857 | 17.2 | Italian | 117 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 60.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,130 | 82.8 | Norwegian | 931 | 9.3 | |
| Percent employed | 83.6 | (X) | Polish | 66 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,138 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 846 | 39.6 | Russian | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 201 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 149 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,484 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,201 | 65.4 | Swedish | 381 | 3.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,274 | 34.5 | Swiss | 33 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,766 | 18.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,508 | 15.9 | United States or American | 712 | 7.1 | |
| Same state | 852 | 9.0 | Welsh | 76 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 656 | 6.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 9 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 493 | 4.9 | |
| 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)

