
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 | 31,437 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,935 | 100.0 | Native | 30,896 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 460 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 30,737 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 454 | 5.7 | State of residence | 25,523 | 81.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,733 | 47.0 | Different state | 5,214 | 16.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,916 | 24.1 | Born outside United States | 159 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,372 | 17.3 | Foreign born | 541 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 135 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 245 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 21,258 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 296 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 667 | 3.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,679 | 7.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,658 | 31.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 541 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,880 | 23.0 | Europe | 317 | 58.6 | |
| Associate degree | 1,812 | 8.5 | Asia | 51 | 9.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,506 | 16.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,056 | 9.7 | Oceania | 5 | 0.9 | |
| Latin America | 25 | 4.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 89.0 | (X) | Northern America | 143 | 26.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 26.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 29,490 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 24,931 | 100.0 | English only | 28,420 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 5,526 | 22.2 | Language other than English | 1,070 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 14,842 | 59.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 322 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 211 | 0.8 | Spanish | 330 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,598 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 121 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,287 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 528 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 2,754 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 140 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,577 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 66 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 31,437 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 265 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 33,841 | 107.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 115 | 43.4 | Arab | 53 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 353 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 200 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 23,468 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,408 | 4.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,311 | 14.1 | English | 4,134 | 13.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,781 | 5.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 880 | 2.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,068 | 25.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,106 | 100.0 | Greek | 62 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 550 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 163 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 17,711 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,400 | 14.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,704 | 15.3 | Italian | 804 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 56.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 106 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 15,007 | 84.7 | Norwegian | 277 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 79.7 | (X) | Polish | 2,885 | 9.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,173 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,675 | 40.1 | Russian | 112 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 465 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,048 | 3.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 55 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 29,490 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,734 | 56.7 | Swedish | 673 | 2.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 12,544 | 42.5 | Swiss | 116 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 6,111 | 20.7 | Ukrainian | 74 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 6,433 | 21.8 | United States or American | 1,964 | 6.2 | |
| Same state | 4,722 | 16.0 | Welsh | 214 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 1,711 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 212 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 3,516 | 11.2 | |
| 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)

