DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Barry 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 | 34,010 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,860 | 100.0 | Native | 32,827 | 96.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 450 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 32,709 | 96.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 469 | 6.0 | State of residence | 17,428 | 51.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,320 | 55.0 | Different state | 15,281 | 44.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,911 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 118 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 710 | 9.0 | Foreign born | 1,183 | 3.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 755 | 2.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 313 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,381 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 870 | 2.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,190 | 9.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,252 | 14.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,185 | 41.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,183 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,509 | 20.1 | Europe | 120 | 10.1 | |
| Associate degree | 842 | 3.8 | Asia | 54 | 4.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,619 | 7.2 | Africa | 8 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 784 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 953 | 80.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.7 | (X) | Northern America | 48 | 4.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 31,736 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 26,643 | 100.0 | English only | 29,846 | 94.0 | |
| Never married | 4,528 | 17.0 | Language other than English | 1,890 | 6.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 16,765 | 62.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 962 | 3.0 | |
| Separated | 365 | 1.4 | Spanish | 1,499 | 4.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,985 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 829 | 2.6 | |
| Female | 1,568 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 277 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 3,000 | 11.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 84 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,544 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 64 | 0.2 | |
| 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 | 34,010 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 523 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 28,833 | 84.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 291 | 55.6 | Arab | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 213 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 160 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 25,080 | 100.0 | Dutch | 812 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,737 | 14.9 | English | 3,521 | 10.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 859 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 84 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,683 | 13.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,868 | 100.0 | Greek | 22 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 696 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,334 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,581 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 3,896 | 21.3 | Italian | 569 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 47.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 14,438 | 78.7 | Norwegian | 292 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 77.3 | (X) | Polish | 607 | 1.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,189 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 31 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,134 | 41.1 | Russian | 119 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 596 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 352 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 9 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 31,736 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,615 | 52.4 | Swedish | 417 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,723 | 46.4 | Swiss | 114 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 6,919 | 21.8 | Ukrainian | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 7,804 | 24.6 | United States or American | 5,937 | 17.5 | |
| Same state | 3,363 | 10.6 | Welsh | 134 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 4,441 | 14.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 398 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 5,619 | 16.5 | |
| 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)
