DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Outagamie 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 | 160,971 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 44,269 | 100.0 | Native | 155,914 | 96.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 3,003 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 155,266 | 96.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,379 | 5.4 | State of residence | 130,313 | 81.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 20,968 | 47.4 | Different state | 24,953 | 15.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 10,190 | 23.0 | Born outside United States | 648 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 7,729 | 17.5 | Foreign born | 5,057 | 3.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,420 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,623 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 102,218 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3,434 | 2.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,834 | 4.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,296 | 7.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 38,594 | 37.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 5,057 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 19,516 | 19.1 | Europe | 1,003 | 19.8 | |
| Associate degree | 8,962 | 8.8 | Asia | 2,426 | 48.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 17,065 | 16.7 | Africa | 59 | 1.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 5,951 | 5.8 | Oceania | 22 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 1,189 | 23.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.1 | (X) | Northern America | 358 | 7.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 149,809 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 124,131 | 100.0 | English only | 140,883 | 94.0 | |
| Never married | 30,753 | 24.8 | Language other than English | 8,926 | 6.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 75,771 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,925 | 2.6 | |
| Separated | 992 | 0.8 | Spanish | 3,697 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 6,601 | 5.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,710 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 5,435 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,074 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 10,014 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 470 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 5,335 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,824 | 1.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,687 | 1.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 160,971 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,114 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 199,374 | 123.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 476 | 42.7 | Arab | 145 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,530 | 1.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,538 | 1.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 116,516 | 100.0 | Dutch | 21,346 | 13.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 14,565 | 12.5 | English | 7,768 | 4.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 7,853 | 4.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,702 | 1.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 82,370 | 51.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 39,586 | 100.0 | Greek | 347 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 2,489 | 6.3 | Hungarian | 485 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 91,865 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 17,232 | 10.7 | |
| With a disability | 10,787 | 11.7 | Italian | 3,561 | 2.2 | |
| Percent employed | 67.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 235 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 81,078 | 88.3 | Norwegian | 7,744 | 4.8 | |
| Percent employed | 84.7 | (X) | Polish | 9,778 | 6.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 16,524 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 68 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,411 | 32.7 | Russian | 530 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 793 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,574 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 89 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 149,809 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 131 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 85,989 | 57.4 | Swedish | 3,279 | 2.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 61,875 | 41.3 | Swiss | 931 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 33,723 | 22.5 | Ukrainian | 174 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 28,152 | 18.8 | United States or American | 7,160 | 4.4 | |
| Same state | 19,821 | 13.2 | Welsh | 600 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 8,331 | 5.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 71 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,945 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 18,340 | 11.4 | |
| 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)
