
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Brown 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 | 14,957 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,303 | 100.0 | Native | 14,806 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 83 | 2.5 | Born in United States | 14,744 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 181 | 5.5 | State of residence | 11,482 | 76.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,680 | 50.9 | Different state | 3,262 | 21.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 863 | 26.1 | Born outside United States | 62 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 496 | 15.0 | Foreign born | 151 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 54 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 86 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,530 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 65 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 390 | 3.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,334 | 12.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,091 | 38.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 151 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,210 | 21.0 | Europe | 58 | 38.4 | |
| Associate degree | 562 | 5.3 | Asia | 51 | 33.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,202 | 11.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 741 | 7.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 21 | 13.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.6 | (X) | Northern America | 21 | 13.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,163 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,156 | 100.0 | English only | 13,808 | 97.5 | |
| Never married | 2,141 | 17.6 | Language other than English | 355 | 2.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,996 | 65.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 101 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 71 | 0.6 | Spanish | 175 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 729 | 6.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 604 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 175 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,219 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 60 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 558 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,957 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 214 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,845 | 85.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 110 | 51.4 | Arab | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 40 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 16 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,452 | 100.0 | Dutch | 381 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,876 | 16.4 | English | 1,938 | 13.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 333 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 46 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,126 | 20.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,174 | 100.0 | Greek | 30 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 230 | 7.2 | Hungarian | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,007 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,890 | 12.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,789 | 19.9 | Italian | 214 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 58.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 28 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 7,218 | 80.1 | Norwegian | 72 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 77.4 | (X) | Polish | 154 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,839 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 643 | 35.0 | Russian | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 309 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 364 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,163 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,017 | 63.7 | Swedish | 149 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,033 | 35.5 | Swiss | 43 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 1,513 | 10.7 | Ukrainian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,520 | 24.9 | United States or American | 1,930 | 12.9 | |
| Same state | 2,663 | 18.8 | Welsh | 107 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 857 | 6.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 113 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 1,569 | 10.5 | |
| 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)

