
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Fond du Lac 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 | 97,296 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 25,296 | 100.0 | Native | 95,339 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,434 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 95,000 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,283 | 5.1 | State of residence | 82,178 | 84.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 11,398 | 45.1 | Different state | 12,822 | 13.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,459 | 25.5 | Born outside United States | 339 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,722 | 18.7 | Foreign born | 1,957 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,044 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 759 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 63,548 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,198 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,635 | 5.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,391 | 10.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 25,479 | 40.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,957 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 12,097 | 19.0 | Europe | 576 | 29.4 | |
| Associate degree | 5,231 | 8.2 | Asia | 477 | 24.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 7,617 | 12.0 | Africa | 77 | 3.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,098 | 4.9 | Oceania | 31 | 1.6 | |
| Latin America | 698 | 35.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.2 | (X) | Northern America | 98 | 5.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 91,596 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 77,661 | 100.0 | English only | 87,199 | 95.2 | |
| Never married | 19,041 | 24.5 | Language other than English | 4,397 | 4.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 46,724 | 60.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,487 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 655 | 0.8 | Spanish | 1,954 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 5,149 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 760 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 4,155 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,758 | 1.9 | |
| Divorced | 6,092 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 484 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 3,205 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 539 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 224 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 97,296 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 835 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 112,115 | 115.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 302 | 36.2 | Arab | 372 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 814 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 838 | 0.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 72,780 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4,770 | 4.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 9,892 | 13.6 | English | 6,003 | 6.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,047 | 4.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,151 | 1.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 55,579 | 57.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 23,268 | 100.0 | Greek | 451 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,754 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 436 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 53,068 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 10,206 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 6,293 | 11.9 | Italian | 1,896 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 65.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 226 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 46,775 | 88.1 | Norwegian | 3,416 | 3.5 | |
| Percent employed | 86.3 | (X) | Polish | 5,467 | 5.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 12,973 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 17 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,752 | 36.6 | Russian | 581 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 472 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 883 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 124 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 91,596 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 42 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 54,488 | 59.5 | Swedish | 1,519 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 36,009 | 39.3 | Swiss | 576 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 22,027 | 24.0 | Ukrainian | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 13,982 | 15.3 | United States or American | 4,341 | 4.5 | |
| Same state | 9,755 | 10.7 | Welsh | 471 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 4,227 | 4.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,099 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 7,399 | 7.6 | |
| 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)

