DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Calhoun 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 | 15,185 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,652 | 100.0 | Native | 15,038 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 219 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 14,960 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 220 | 6.0 | State of residence | 12,303 | 81.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,820 | 49.8 | Different state | 2,657 | 17.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 931 | 25.5 | Born outside United States | 78 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 462 | 12.7 | Foreign born | 147 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 86 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 43 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,266 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 104 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,035 | 10.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,755 | 17.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,631 | 35.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 147 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,713 | 16.7 | Europe | 24 | 16.3 | |
| Associate degree | 675 | 6.6 | Asia | 28 | 19.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 995 | 9.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 462 | 4.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 86 | 58.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.8 | (X) | Northern America | 9 | 6.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,235 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,063 | 100.0 | English only | 13,893 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 2,971 | 24.6 | Language other than English | 342 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,536 | 54.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 144 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 533 | 4.4 | Spanish | 232 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 1,125 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 108 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 949 | 7.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 75 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 898 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 442 | 3.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,185 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 561 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,870 | 84.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 300 | 53.5 | Arab | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,367 | 100.0 | Dutch | 106 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,423 | 12.5 | English | 823 | 5.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 180 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,319 | 8.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,355 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 316 | 9.4 | Hungarian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,757 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 674 | 4.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,356 | 26.9 | Italian | 133 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 52.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 6,401 | 73.1 | Norwegian | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 74.0 | (X) | Polish | 48 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,987 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 910 | 45.8 | Russian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 230 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 141 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,235 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 86 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,084 | 70.8 | Swedish | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,063 | 28.5 | Swiss | 49 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,529 | 10.7 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,534 | 17.8 | United States or American | 1,731 | 11.4 | |
| Same state | 1,889 | 13.3 | Welsh | 37 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 645 | 4.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 88 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 7,163 | 47.2 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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