
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Keweenaw 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 | 2,301 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 501 | 100.0 | Native | 2,277 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 21 | 4.2 | Born in United States | 2,268 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 15 | 3.0 | State of residence | 1,906 | 82.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 179 | 35.7 | Different state | 362 | 15.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 229 | 45.7 | Born outside United States | 9 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 57 | 11.4 | Foreign born | 24 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 18 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,634 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 93 | 5.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 173 | 10.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 608 | 37.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 22 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 348 | 21.3 | Europe | 14 | 63.6 | |
| Associate degree | 100 | 6.1 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 199 | 12.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 113 | 6.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.7 | (X) | Northern America | 8 | 36.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,195 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,953 | 100.0 | English only | 2,098 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 468 | 24.0 | Language other than English | 97 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,106 | 56.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 12 | 0.6 | Spanish | 28 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 162 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 126 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 28 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 205 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 99 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,301 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 15 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,870 | 124.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6 | 40.0 | Arab | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 9 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 13 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,783 | 100.0 | Dutch | 19 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 379 | 21.3 | English | 280 | 12.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 214 | 9.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 51 | 2.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 344 | 15.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 347 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 19 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 16 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,243 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 143 | 6.2 | |
| With a disability | 217 | 17.5 | Italian | 191 | 8.3 | |
| Percent employed | 35.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 9 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 1,026 | 82.5 | Norwegian | 100 | 4.3 | |
| Percent employed | 71.4 | (X) | Polish | 105 | 4.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 465 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 151 | 32.5 | Russian | 12 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 18 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 48 | 2.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,195 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,467 | 66.8 | Swedish | 91 | 4.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 721 | 32.8 | Swiss | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 148 | 6.7 | Ukrainian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 573 | 26.1 | United States or American | 49 | 2.1 | |
| Same state | 439 | 20.0 | Welsh | 13 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 134 | 6.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 7 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 1,128 | 49.0 | |
| 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
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