
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Brown 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 | 10,724 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,732 | 100.0 | Native | 10,589 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 223 | 8.2 | Born in United States | 10,532 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 140 | 5.1 | State of residence | 7,493 | 69.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,288 | 47.1 | Different state | 3,039 | 28.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 732 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 57 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 349 | 12.8 | Foreign born | 135 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 53 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 76 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,080 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 59 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 398 | 5.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 693 | 9.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,768 | 39.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 135 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,441 | 20.4 | Europe | 48 | 35.6 | |
| Associate degree | 432 | 6.1 | Asia | 42 | 31.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 934 | 13.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 414 | 5.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 39 | 28.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.6 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 4.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,044 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,445 | 100.0 | English only | 9,609 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 1,807 | 21.4 | Language other than English | 435 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,912 | 58.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 119 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 83 | 1.0 | Spanish | 190 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 755 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 55 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 654 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 84 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 888 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 511 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 44 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,724 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 120 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,021 | 102.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 50 | 41.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 83 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 83 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,890 | 100.0 | Dutch | 351 | 3.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,176 | 14.9 | English | 1,145 | 10.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 264 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 29 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,545 | 33.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,516 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 250 | 9.9 | Hungarian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,383 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,263 | 11.8 | |
| With a disability | 1,251 | 23.2 | Italian | 100 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 62.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,132 | 76.8 | Norwegian | 384 | 3.6 | |
| Percent employed | 84.4 | (X) | Polish | 44 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,945 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 758 | 39.0 | Russian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 201 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 115 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,044 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,184 | 61.6 | Swedish | 94 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,808 | 37.9 | Swiss | 309 | 2.9 | |
| Same county | 2,015 | 20.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,793 | 17.9 | United States or American | 607 | 5.7 | |
| Same state | 871 | 8.7 | Welsh | 182 | 1.7 | |
| Different state | 922 | 9.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 52 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 2,173 | 20.3 | |
| 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)

