
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Brown 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 | 42,285 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,406 | 100.0 | Native | 42,101 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 427 | 4.1 | Born in United States | 41,868 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 649 | 6.2 | State of residence | 32,709 | 77.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,559 | 53.4 | Different state | 9,159 | 21.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,607 | 25.1 | Born outside United States | 233 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,164 | 11.2 | Foreign born | 184 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 85 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 101 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 27,209 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 83 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,172 | 8.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,688 | 17.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,324 | 45.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 184 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,188 | 15.4 | Europe | 65 | 35.3 | |
| Associate degree | 1,434 | 5.3 | Asia | 74 | 40.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,502 | 5.5 | Africa | 2 | 1.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 901 | 3.3 | Oceania | 9 | 4.9 | |
| Latin America | 18 | 9.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.8 | (X) | Northern America | 16 | 8.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 39,307 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 32,578 | 100.0 | English only | 38,543 | 98.1 | |
| Never married | 6,618 | 20.3 | Language other than English | 764 | 1.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 19,882 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 249 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 461 | 1.4 | Spanish | 441 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 2,144 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 162 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,651 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 266 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 3,473 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 67 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,889 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 46 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 42,285 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 757 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 35,997 | 85.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 383 | 50.6 | Arab | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 17 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 25 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 30,628 | 100.0 | Dutch | 763 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,198 | 13.7 | English | 3,967 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,289 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 49 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,857 | 23.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,301 | 100.0 | Greek | 18 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 903 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 23,989 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,122 | 12.1 | |
| With a disability | 5,540 | 23.1 | Italian | 606 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 56.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 10 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 18,449 | 76.9 | Norwegian | 55 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.6 | (X) | Polish | 209 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,624 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,030 | 43.9 | Russian | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 580 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 523 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 39,307 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 23,244 | 59.1 | Swedish | 86 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 15,979 | 40.7 | Swiss | 94 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 7,128 | 18.1 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 8,851 | 22.5 | United States or American | 8,189 | 19.4 | |
| Same state | 7,254 | 18.5 | Welsh | 319 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,597 | 4.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 20 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 84 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 4,090 | 9.7 | |
| 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)

