
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Gladwin 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 | 26,023 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,597 | 100.0 | Native | 25,693 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 241 | 4.3 | Born in United States | 25,597 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 286 | 5.1 | State of residence | 22,562 | 86.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,936 | 52.5 | Different state | 3,035 | 11.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,474 | 26.3 | Born outside United States | 96 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 660 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 330 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 29 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 260 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 18,308 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 70 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,236 | 6.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,742 | 15.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,609 | 41.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 330 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,008 | 21.9 | Europe | 170 | 51.5 | |
| Associate degree | 1,032 | 5.6 | Asia | 35 | 10.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,160 | 6.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 521 | 2.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 16 | 4.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.3 | (X) | Northern America | 109 | 33.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 24,587 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 21,097 | 100.0 | English only | 23,551 | 95.8 | |
| Never married | 3,734 | 17.7 | Language other than English | 1,036 | 4.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 13,557 | 64.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 321 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 186 | 0.9 | Spanish | 261 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,644 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 47 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,285 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 708 | 2.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,976 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 251 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 938 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 40 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 26,023 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 327 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 25,989 | 99.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 147 | 45.0 | Arab | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 129 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 36 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,977 | 100.0 | Dutch | 713 | 2.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,389 | 17.0 | English | 3,156 | 12.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,857 | 7.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 868 | 3.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,824 | 26.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,389 | 100.0 | Greek | 34 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 440 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 214 | 0.8 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,406 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,045 | 11.7 | |
| With a disability | 3,274 | 22.7 | Italian | 674 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 37.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 34 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 11,132 | 77.3 | Norwegian | 125 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 67.3 | (X) | Polish | 1,842 | 7.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,568 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,899 | 41.6 | Russian | 87 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 457 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 744 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 40 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 24,587 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,955 | 60.8 | Swedish | 262 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,581 | 39.0 | Swiss | 50 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 4,265 | 17.3 | Ukrainian | 37 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 5,316 | 21.6 | United States or American | 2,074 | 8.0 | |
| Same state | 4,693 | 19.1 | Welsh | 122 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 623 | 2.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 51 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 2,531 | 9.7 | |
| 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)

