
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Marinette 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 | 43,384 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,876 | 100.0 | Native | 42,844 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 631 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 42,674 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 594 | 5.5 | State of residence | 28,927 | 66.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,773 | 43.9 | Different state | 13,747 | 31.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,933 | 27.0 | Born outside United States | 170 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,945 | 17.9 | Foreign born | 540 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 141 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 332 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 29,575 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 208 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,803 | 6.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,364 | 11.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,221 | 44.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 540 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,666 | 19.2 | Europe | 364 | 67.4 | |
| Associate degree | 1,706 | 5.8 | Asia | 78 | 14.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,683 | 9.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,132 | 3.8 | Oceania | 6 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 53 | 9.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.5 | (X) | Northern America | 39 | 7.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 41,164 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 35,250 | 100.0 | English only | 39,563 | 96.1 | |
| Never married | 7,597 | 21.6 | Language other than English | 1,601 | 3.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,009 | 59.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 484 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 298 | 0.8 | Spanish | 545 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 3,051 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 176 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 2,407 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 905 | 2.2 | |
| Divorced | 3,295 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 266 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,613 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 101 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 43,384 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 317 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 53,255 | 122.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 117 | 36.9 | Arab | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,054 | 2.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 628 | 1.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 33,114 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,211 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,562 | 16.8 | English | 2,151 | 5.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,048 | 9.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,180 | 5.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 18,226 | 42.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,883 | 100.0 | Greek | 52 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 686 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 134 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 23,481 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,674 | 8.5 | |
| With a disability | 3,794 | 16.2 | Italian | 1,443 | 3.3 | |
| Percent employed | 56.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 93 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 19,687 | 83.8 | Norwegian | 2,012 | 4.6 | |
| Percent employed | 78.8 | (X) | Polish | 5,986 | 13.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,248 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 23 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,744 | 37.9 | Russian | 183 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 291 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 420 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 123 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 41,164 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 26,439 | 64.2 | Swedish | 2,663 | 6.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,534 | 35.3 | Swiss | 191 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 7,382 | 17.9 | Ukrainian | 119 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 7,152 | 17.4 | United States or American | 2,005 | 4.6 | |
| Same state | 3,911 | 9.5 | Welsh | 112 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 3,241 | 7.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 191 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 4,202 | 9.7 | |
| 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)

