
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 | 37,674 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,963 | 100.0 | Native | 36,492 | 96.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 625 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 36,289 | 96.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 548 | 5.5 | State of residence | 29,879 | 79.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,319 | 43.4 | Different state | 6,410 | 17.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,666 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 203 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,805 | 18.1 | Foreign born | 1,182 | 3.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 381 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 506 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 24,016 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 676 | 1.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,367 | 9.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,728 | 15.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,401 | 35.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,182 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,103 | 21.2 | Europe | 91 | 7.7 | |
| Associate degree | 810 | 3.4 | Asia | 107 | 9.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,517 | 10.5 | Africa | 24 | 2.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,090 | 4.5 | Oceania | 6 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 902 | 76.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.6 | (X) | Northern America | 52 | 4.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 35,355 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 30,054 | 100.0 | English only | 30,986 | 87.6 | |
| Never married | 5,696 | 19.0 | Language other than English | 4,369 | 12.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 17,837 | 59.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,427 | 4.0 | |
| Separated | 647 | 2.2 | Spanish | 4,030 | 11.4 | |
| Widowed | 2,574 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,331 | 3.8 | |
| Female | 2,131 | 7.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 186 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 3,300 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,853 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 92 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 37,674 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 703 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 30,291 | 80.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 443 | 63.0 | Arab | 38 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 91 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 78 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 27,936 | 100.0 | Dutch | 568 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,792 | 13.6 | English | 3,047 | 8.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 593 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 127 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,535 | 9.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,721 | 100.0 | Greek | 31 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 652 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 19,248 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,538 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,556 | 23.7 | Italian | 328 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 52.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 14,692 | 76.3 | Norwegian | 63 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 76.4 | (X) | Polish | 233 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,668 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,570 | 45.3 | Russian | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 857 | 2.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 554 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 35,355 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 26 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 17,707 | 50.1 | Swedish | 152 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 17,447 | 49.3 | Swiss | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 9,426 | 26.7 | Ukrainian | 26 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 8,021 | 22.7 | United States or American | 6,192 | 16.4 | |
| Same state | 6,346 | 17.9 | Welsh | 95 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,675 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 45 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 201 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 9,976 | 26.5 | |
| 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)

