
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Madison 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 | 25,730 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,893 | 100.0 | Native | 25,222 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 465 | 7.9 | Born in United States | 25,089 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 294 | 5.0 | State of residence | 20,300 | 78.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,146 | 53.4 | Different state | 4,789 | 18.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,319 | 22.4 | Born outside United States | 133 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 669 | 11.4 | Foreign born | 508 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 315 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 133 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,881 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 375 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,439 | 8.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,493 | 20.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,891 | 40.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 508 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,637 | 15.6 | Europe | 88 | 17.3 | |
| Associate degree | 582 | 3.4 | Asia | 141 | 27.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,148 | 6.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 691 | 4.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 273 | 53.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.8 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 1.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,957 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,054 | 100.0 | English only | 23,062 | 96.3 | |
| Never married | 3,934 | 19.6 | Language other than English | 895 | 3.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,243 | 61.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 430 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 325 | 1.6 | Spanish | 585 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,523 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 352 | 1.5 | |
| Female | 1,221 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 164 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 2,029 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,059 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 127 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 25,730 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 657 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 18,867 | 73.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 307 | 46.7 | Arab | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 28 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 27 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 18,963 | 100.0 | Dutch | 171 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,496 | 13.2 | English | 1,809 | 7.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 382 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 62 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,399 | 5.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,928 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 503 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 83 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 15,170 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,845 | 7.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,504 | 23.1 | Italian | 224 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 58.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 11,666 | 76.9 | Norwegian | 43 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 107 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,705 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 11 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,322 | 48.9 | Russian | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 448 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 319 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,957 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 77 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,598 | 65.1 | Swedish | 114 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,208 | 34.3 | Swiss | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,669 | 15.3 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,539 | 18.9 | United States or American | 7,470 | 29.0 | |
| Same state | 3,354 | 14.0 | Welsh | 82 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,185 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 151 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 4,077 | 15.8 | |
| 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)

