
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Davison 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 | 18,741 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,217 | 100.0 | Native | 18,553 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 292 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 18,532 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 421 | 8.1 | State of residence | 14,627 | 78.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,034 | 39.0 | Different state | 3,905 | 20.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,187 | 22.8 | Born outside United States | 21 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,283 | 24.6 | Foreign born | 188 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 97 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 71 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,719 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 117 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 808 | 6.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,080 | 9.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,971 | 33.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 188 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,504 | 21.4 | Europe | 63 | 33.5 | |
| Associate degree | 993 | 8.5 | Asia | 19 | 10.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,706 | 14.6 | Africa | 27 | 14.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 657 | 5.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 78 | 41.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.9 | (X) | Northern America | 1 | 0.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 17,527 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 14,868 | 100.0 | English only | 16,976 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 3,821 | 25.7 | Language other than English | 551 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,302 | 55.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 185 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 118 | 0.8 | Spanish | 280 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 1,315 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 80 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,104 | 7.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 182 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,312 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 83 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 713 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 18,741 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 74 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,332 | 113.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 26 | 35.1 | Arab | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 551 | 2.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 327 | 1.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 13,956 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,063 | 5.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,695 | 12.1 | English | 1,363 | 7.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 609 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 157 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,227 | 49.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,667 | 100.0 | Greek | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 270 | 5.8 | Hungarian | 84 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,684 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,036 | 10.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,458 | 15.1 | Italian | 163 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 64.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,226 | 84.9 | Norwegian | 2,213 | 11.8 | |
| Percent employed | 86.0 | (X) | Polish | 213 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,837 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,004 | 35.4 | Russian | 193 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 109 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 126 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 17,527 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 52 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,205 | 52.5 | Swedish | 572 | 3.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,198 | 46.8 | Swiss | 93 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 3,935 | 22.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,263 | 24.3 | United States or American | 827 | 4.4 | |
| Same state | 3,039 | 17.3 | Welsh | 148 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,224 | 7.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 124 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 1,164 | 6.2 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

