
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Manitowoc 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 | 82,887 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 20,954 | 100.0 | Native | 80,948 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,258 | 6.0 | Born in United States | 80,770 | 97.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,148 | 5.5 | State of residence | 70,981 | 85.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,068 | 48.0 | Different state | 9,789 | 11.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,449 | 26.0 | Born outside United States | 178 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,031 | 14.5 | Foreign born | 1,939 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 998 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 565 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 55,452 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,374 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,697 | 6.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,865 | 8.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 23,853 | 43.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,939 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 10,359 | 18.7 | Europe | 448 | 23.1 | |
| Associate degree | 4,099 | 7.4 | Asia | 925 | 47.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 6,273 | 11.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,306 | 4.2 | Oceania | 9 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 493 | 25.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.6 | (X) | Northern America | 64 | 3.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 78,124 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 65,770 | 100.0 | English only | 74,004 | 94.7 | |
| Never married | 15,799 | 24.0 | Language other than English | 4,120 | 5.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 39,137 | 59.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,642 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 715 | 1.1 | Spanish | 1,376 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 4,801 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 608 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 4,044 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,552 | 2.0 | |
| Divorced | 5,318 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 416 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,664 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,179 | 1.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 618 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 82,887 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 625 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 101,382 | 122.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 328 | 52.5 | Arab | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 8,276 | 10.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 722 | 0.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 61,787 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,704 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,923 | 14.4 | English | 3,166 | 3.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,346 | 5.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,763 | 2.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 45,449 | 54.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 19,353 | 100.0 | Greek | 141 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,250 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 205 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 45,556 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,033 | 8.5 | |
| With a disability | 5,868 | 12.9 | Italian | 1,062 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 63.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 198 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 39,688 | 87.1 | Norwegian | 4,168 | 5.0 | |
| Percent employed | 85.5 | (X) | Polish | 9,132 | 11.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 12,409 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 46 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,131 | 33.3 | Russian | 402 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 282 | 0.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 511 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 124 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 78,124 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 50,473 | 64.6 | Swedish | 1,102 | 1.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 27,166 | 34.8 | Swiss | 260 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 18,149 | 23.2 | Ukrainian | 60 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 9,017 | 11.5 | United States or American | 3,543 | 4.3 | |
| Same state | 5,862 | 7.5 | Welsh | 160 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 3,155 | 4.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 27 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 485 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 7,435 | 9.0 | |
| 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)

