
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Walworth 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 | 93,759 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 28,372 | 100.0 | Native | 88,723 | 94.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,375 | 4.8 | Born in United States | 88,255 | 94.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,288 | 4.5 | State of residence | 54,566 | 58.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,775 | 38.0 | Different state | 33,689 | 35.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,385 | 19.0 | Born outside United States | 468 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 9,549 | 33.7 | Foreign born | 5,036 | 5.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,378 | 2.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2,046 | 2.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 58,153 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,990 | 3.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,049 | 5.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,155 | 10.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 19,459 | 33.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 5,036 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 12,857 | 22.1 | Europe | 1,312 | 26.1 | |
| Associate degree | 3,961 | 6.8 | Asia | 540 | 10.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 8,694 | 15.0 | Africa | 33 | 0.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,978 | 6.8 | Oceania | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 3,028 | 60.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.2 | (X) | Northern America | 117 | 2.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 88,296 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 75,069 | 100.0 | English only | 80,321 | 91.0 | |
| Never married | 21,249 | 28.3 | Language other than English | 7,975 | 9.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 41,543 | 55.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,432 | 3.9 | |
| Separated | 865 | 1.2 | Spanish | 5,193 | 5.9 | |
| Widowed | 4,946 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,631 | 3.0 | |
| Female | 3,957 | 5.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,252 | 2.6 | |
| Divorced | 6,466 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 558 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 3,459 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 437 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 229 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 93,759 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,100 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 113,851 | 121.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 373 | 33.9 | Arab | 63 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,700 | 1.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,743 | 1.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 71,095 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,678 | 2.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,729 | 12.3 | English | 8,823 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,309 | 3.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 688 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 37,462 | 40.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 23,610 | 100.0 | Greek | 446 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,644 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 413 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 52,233 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 13,923 | 14.8 | |
| With a disability | 7,356 | 14.1 | Italian | 4,309 | 4.6 | |
| Percent employed | 64.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 489 | 0.5 | |
| No disability | 44,877 | 85.9 | Norwegian | 6,063 | 6.5 | |
| Percent employed | 83.1 | (X) | Polish | 8,307 | 8.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 11,302 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 33 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,993 | 35.3 | Russian | 400 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 848 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,336 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 266 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 88,296 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 80 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 45,568 | 51.6 | Swedish | 3,551 | 3.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 41,569 | 47.1 | Swiss | 797 | 0.9 | |
| Same county | 17,999 | 20.4 | Ukrainian | 186 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 23,570 | 26.7 | United States or American | 4,027 | 4.3 | |
| Same state | 13,658 | 15.5 | Welsh | 697 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 9,912 | 11.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,159 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 11,212 | 12.0 | |
| 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)

