
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Marshall 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 | 26,767 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,342 | 100.0 | Native | 26,391 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 264 | 4.2 | Born in United States | 26,289 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 404 | 6.4 | State of residence | 18,364 | 68.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,168 | 50.0 | Different state | 7,925 | 29.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,722 | 27.2 | Born outside United States | 102 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 784 | 12.4 | Foreign born | 376 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 295 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 61 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,615 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 315 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,761 | 10.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,894 | 16.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,260 | 41.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 376 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,089 | 17.5 | Europe | 33 | 8.8 | |
| Associate degree | 736 | 4.2 | Asia | 9 | 2.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,298 | 7.4 | Africa | 3 | 0.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 577 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 318 | 84.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.6 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 3.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 25,015 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 21,190 | 100.0 | English only | 24,278 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 4,358 | 20.6 | Language other than English | 737 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,620 | 59.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 379 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 263 | 1.2 | Spanish | 610 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,429 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 353 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 1,186 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 115 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 2,520 | 11.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,317 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 26,767 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 677 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,565 | 80.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 342 | 50.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 24 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 25 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,921 | 100.0 | Dutch | 358 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,350 | 11.8 | English | 2,396 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 465 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 156 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,226 | 8.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,055 | 100.0 | Greek | 36 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 519 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 15,555 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,252 | 8.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,479 | 22.4 | Italian | 471 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 59.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,076 | 77.6 | Norwegian | 105 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 79.8 | (X) | Polish | 221 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,170 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,557 | 49.1 | Russian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 868 | 3.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 495 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 25,015 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,624 | 54.5 | Swedish | 103 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,147 | 44.6 | Swiss | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 5,766 | 23.1 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,381 | 21.5 | United States or American | 6,519 | 24.4 | |
| Same state | 3,207 | 12.8 | Welsh | 60 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 2,174 | 8.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 244 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 4,671 | 17.5 | |
| 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)

