
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Charlevoix 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 | 26,090 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,278 | 100.0 | Native | 25,730 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 355 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 25,644 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 373 | 5.9 | State of residence | 21,408 | 82.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,130 | 49.9 | Different state | 4,236 | 16.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,659 | 26.4 | Born outside United States | 86 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 761 | 12.1 | Foreign born | 360 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 98 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 200 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,528 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 160 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 675 | 3.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,776 | 10.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,158 | 35.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 360 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,988 | 22.8 | Europe | 150 | 41.7 | |
| Associate degree | 1,452 | 8.3 | Asia | 50 | 13.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,271 | 13.0 | Africa | 7 | 1.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,208 | 6.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 50 | 13.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.0 | (X) | Northern America | 103 | 28.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 24,369 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,518 | 100.0 | English only | 23,597 | 96.8 | |
| Never married | 4,148 | 20.2 | Language other than English | 772 | 3.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,609 | 61.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 259 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 198 | 1.0 | Spanish | 263 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,278 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 118 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,043 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 431 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 2,285 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 117 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,176 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 26,090 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 290 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 28,179 | 108.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 127 | 43.8 | Arab | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 335 | 1.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 147 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,220 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,506 | 5.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,067 | 16.0 | English | 3,754 | 14.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,572 | 6.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 816 | 3.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,950 | 22.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,922 | 100.0 | Greek | 56 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 501 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 108 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,459 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,463 | 13.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,546 | 17.6 | Italian | 620 | 2.4 | |
| Percent employed | 60.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 44 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 11,913 | 82.4 | Norwegian | 369 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 77.2 | (X) | Polish | 2,268 | 8.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,732 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,497 | 40.1 | Russian | 143 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 457 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 884 | 3.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 43 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 24,369 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,419 | 59.2 | Swedish | 667 | 2.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,803 | 40.2 | Swiss | 83 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 4,631 | 19.0 | Ukrainian | 70 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 5,172 | 21.2 | United States or American | 2,147 | 8.2 | |
| Same state | 3,853 | 15.8 | Welsh | 186 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 1,319 | 5.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 147 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 2,433 | 9.3 | |
| 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)

