
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Isanti 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 | 31,287 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,631 | 100.0 | Native | 30,879 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 503 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 30,758 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 509 | 5.9 | State of residence | 25,722 | 82.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,280 | 49.6 | Different state | 5,036 | 16.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,380 | 27.6 | Born outside United States | 121 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 959 | 11.1 | Foreign born | 408 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 140 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 220 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 19,915 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 188 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 939 | 4.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,736 | 8.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,639 | 38.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 408 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,245 | 26.3 | Europe | 174 | 42.6 | |
| Associate degree | 1,464 | 7.4 | Asia | 69 | 16.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,980 | 9.9 | Africa | 15 | 3.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 912 | 4.6 | Oceania | 5 | 1.2 | |
| Latin America | 76 | 18.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.6 | (X) | Northern America | 69 | 16.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 29,271 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 24,090 | 100.0 | English only | 28,271 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 5,916 | 24.6 | Language other than English | 1,000 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 14,456 | 60.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 251 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 215 | 0.9 | Spanish | 331 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,400 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 104 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,173 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 593 | 2.0 | |
| Divorced | 2,103 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 128 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,023 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 31,287 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 442 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 40,290 | 128.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 136 | 30.8 | Arab | 70 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 512 | 1.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 647 | 2.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 22,345 | 100.0 | Dutch | 492 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,249 | 14.5 | English | 1,969 | 6.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,247 | 4.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 507 | 1.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 11,255 | 36.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,115 | 100.0 | Greek | 36 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 590 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 80 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 17,711 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,151 | 10.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,637 | 14.9 | Italian | 556 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 65.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 24 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 15,074 | 85.1 | Norwegian | 5,191 | 16.6 | |
| Percent employed | 84.7 | (X) | Polish | 1,647 | 5.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,115 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 11 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,270 | 40.8 | Russian | 159 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 390 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 326 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 37 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 29,271 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,081 | 61.8 | Swedish | 7,890 | 25.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,079 | 37.8 | Swiss | 88 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 3,514 | 12.0 | Ukrainian | 111 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 7,565 | 25.8 | United States or American | 1,118 | 3.6 | |
| Same state | 6,518 | 22.3 | Welsh | 77 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,047 | 3.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 111 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 2,678 | 8.6 | |
| 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)

