
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Madison 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 | 74,674 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 21,716 | 100.0 | Native | 73,434 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,072 | 9.5 | Born in United States | 73,119 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,430 | 6.6 | State of residence | 57,158 | 76.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,162 | 46.8 | Different state | 15,961 | 21.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,339 | 20.0 | Born outside United States | 315 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,713 | 17.1 | Foreign born | 1,240 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 498 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 743 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 46,773 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 497 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,995 | 6.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,951 | 10.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,558 | 18.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,240 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,702 | 20.7 | Europe | 190 | 15.3 | |
| Associate degree | 2,823 | 6.0 | Asia | 629 | 50.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 12,110 | 25.9 | Africa | 100 | 8.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 5,634 | 12.0 | Oceania | 18 | 1.5 | |
| Latin America | 171 | 13.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.0 | (X) | Northern America | 132 | 10.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 37.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 68,859 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 56,621 | 100.0 | English only | 66,047 | 95.9 | |
| Never married | 16,095 | 28.4 | Language other than English | 2,812 | 4.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 30,215 | 53.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 875 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 1,610 | 2.8 | Spanish | 1,247 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 3,281 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 495 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 2,759 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 921 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 5,420 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 175 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 3,426 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 457 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 194 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 74,674 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,961 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 61,599 | 82.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 984 | 50.2 | Arab | 390 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 74 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 116 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 53,263 | 100.0 | Dutch | 395 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,307 | 10.0 | English | 6,253 | 8.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,690 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 312 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,039 | 5.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 18,435 | 100.0 | Greek | 135 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,235 | 6.7 | Hungarian | 106 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 42,576 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,400 | 7.2 | |
| With a disability | 6,620 | 15.5 | Italian | 1,181 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 54.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 15 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 35,956 | 84.5 | Norwegian | 270 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 79.7 | (X) | Polish | 304 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,291 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 42 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,985 | 47.4 | Russian | 141 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,598 | 3.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,675 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 14 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 68,859 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 612 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 35,995 | 52.3 | Swedish | 303 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 32,177 | 46.7 | Swiss | 72 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 12,722 | 18.5 | Ukrainian | 47 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 19,455 | 28.3 | United States or American | 7,417 | 9.9 | |
| Same state | 12,744 | 18.5 | Welsh | 437 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 6,711 | 9.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 97 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 687 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 27,464 | 36.8 | |
| 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)

