
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Mille Lacs 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 | 22,330 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,643 | 100.0 | Native | 22,094 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 336 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 22,030 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 280 | 5.0 | State of residence | 18,663 | 83.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,888 | 51.2 | Different state | 3,367 | 15.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,603 | 28.4 | Born outside United States | 64 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 536 | 9.5 | Foreign born | 236 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 58 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 137 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,622 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 99 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,074 | 7.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,657 | 11.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,903 | 40.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 236 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,412 | 23.3 | Europe | 70 | 29.7 | |
| Associate degree | 793 | 5.4 | Asia | 64 | 27.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,209 | 8.3 | Africa | 11 | 4.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 574 | 3.9 | Oceania | 2 | 0.8 | |
| Latin America | 51 | 21.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.3 | (X) | Northern America | 38 | 16.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,979 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 17,491 | 100.0 | English only | 19,909 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 3,946 | 22.6 | Language other than English | 1,070 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,247 | 58.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 303 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 241 | 1.4 | Spanish | 389 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,376 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 196 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,076 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 384 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,681 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 71 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 807 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 29 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,330 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 176 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 27,064 | 121.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 79 | 44.9 | Arab | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 260 | 1.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 442 | 2.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,283 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,212 | 5.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,662 | 16.3 | English | 1,142 | 5.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 865 | 3.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 359 | 1.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,054 | 36.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,366 | 100.0 | Greek | 51 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 409 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 45 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,838 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,956 | 8.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,308 | 19.5 | Italian | 238 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 59.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 9,530 | 80.5 | Norwegian | 3,736 | 16.7 | |
| Percent employed | 83.3 | (X) | Polish | 1,019 | 4.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,298 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,278 | 38.8 | Russian | 89 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 230 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 225 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 10 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,979 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,246 | 58.4 | Swedish | 3,923 | 17.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,648 | 41.2 | Swiss | 98 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 3,765 | 17.9 | Ukrainian | 53 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 4,883 | 23.3 | United States or American | 724 | 3.2 | |
| Same state | 4,117 | 19.6 | Welsh | 58 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 766 | 3.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 85 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 2,248 | 10.1 | |
| 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)

