
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Manistee 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 | 24,527 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,638 | 100.0 | Native | 24,217 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 354 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 24,128 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 339 | 6.0 | State of residence | 20,101 | 82.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,667 | 47.3 | Different state | 4,027 | 16.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,627 | 28.9 | Born outside United States | 89 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 651 | 11.5 | Foreign born | 310 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 47 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 176 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,298 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 134 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 867 | 5.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,342 | 13.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,827 | 39.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 310 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,618 | 20.9 | Europe | 146 | 47.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,195 | 6.9 | Asia | 52 | 16.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,642 | 9.5 | Africa | 25 | 8.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 807 | 4.7 | Oceania | 2 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 37 | 11.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.4 | (X) | Northern America | 48 | 15.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,247 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,038 | 100.0 | English only | 22,227 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 4,428 | 22.1 | Language other than English | 1,020 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,588 | 57.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 364 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 250 | 1.2 | Spanish | 524 | 2.3 | |
| Widowed | 1,648 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 205 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,315 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 366 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 2,124 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 123 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,092 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 36 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 24,527 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 248 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 27,107 | 110.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 121 | 48.8 | Arab | 47 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 238 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 366 | 1.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,939 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,003 | 4.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,263 | 17.2 | English | 2,646 | 10.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,277 | 5.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 507 | 2.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,488 | 26.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,052 | 100.0 | Greek | 46 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 526 | 10.4 | Hungarian | 94 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,957 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,392 | 9.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,334 | 18.0 | Italian | 463 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 50.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 49 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 10,623 | 82.0 | Norwegian | 488 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 76.5 | (X) | Polish | 4,081 | 16.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,275 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,902 | 44.5 | Russian | 56 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 298 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 482 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 56 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,247 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,537 | 62.5 | Swedish | 1,258 | 5.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,614 | 37.1 | Swiss | 77 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 4,071 | 17.5 | Ukrainian | 37 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 4,543 | 19.5 | United States or American | 1,660 | 6.8 | |
| Same state | 3,459 | 14.9 | Welsh | 139 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 1,084 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 96 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 2,815 | 11.5 | |
| 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)

