
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Menominee 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 | 25,326 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,896 | 100.0 | Native | 25,106 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 356 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 25,023 | 98.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 334 | 5.7 | State of residence | 13,861 | 54.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,793 | 47.4 | Different state | 11,162 | 44.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,582 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 83 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 831 | 14.1 | Foreign born | 220 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 64 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 116 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,342 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 104 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,014 | 5.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,852 | 10.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,041 | 46.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 220 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,511 | 20.2 | Europe | 144 | 65.5 | |
| Associate degree | 1,021 | 5.9 | Asia | 29 | 13.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,336 | 7.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 567 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 14 | 6.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.5 | (X) | Northern America | 33 | 15.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,811 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,408 | 100.0 | English only | 22,940 | 96.3 | |
| Never married | 4,560 | 22.3 | Language other than English | 871 | 3.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,810 | 57.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 240 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 193 | 0.9 | Spanish | 253 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,776 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 116 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,397 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 501 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 2,069 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 100 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,019 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 25,326 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 236 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 31,258 | 123.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 69 | 29.2 | Arab | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 649 | 2.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 312 | 1.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,227 | 100.0 | Dutch | 467 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,239 | 16.8 | English | 1,411 | 5.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,888 | 15.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,792 | 7.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,010 | 31.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,505 | 100.0 | Greek | 23 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 495 | 9.0 | Hungarian | 287 | 1.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,824 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,075 | 8.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,259 | 16.3 | Italian | 795 | 3.1 | |
| Percent employed | 54.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 79 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 11,565 | 83.7 | Norwegian | 864 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 80.8 | (X) | Polish | 2,949 | 11.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,142 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,704 | 41.1 | Russian | 108 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 155 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 235 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 48 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,811 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,689 | 65.9 | Swedish | 2,616 | 10.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,090 | 34.0 | Swiss | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 4,816 | 20.2 | Ukrainian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,274 | 13.7 | United States or American | 943 | 3.7 | |
| Same state | 1,106 | 4.6 | Welsh | 55 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 2,168 | 9.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 32 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 3,394 | 13.4 | |
| 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)

