
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Winnebago 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 | 11,723 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,008 | 100.0 | Native | 11,508 | 98.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 154 | 5.1 | Born in United States | 11,478 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 117 | 3.9 | State of residence | 8,084 | 69.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,362 | 45.3 | Different state | 3,394 | 29.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 808 | 26.9 | Born outside United States | 30 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 567 | 18.8 | Foreign born | 215 | 1.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 185 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 22 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,772 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 193 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 451 | 5.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 539 | 6.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,956 | 38.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 215 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,867 | 24.0 | Europe | 90 | 41.9 | |
| Associate degree | 680 | 8.7 | Asia | 34 | 15.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 946 | 12.2 | Africa | 6 | 2.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 333 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 82 | 38.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.3 | (X) | Northern America | 3 | 1.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,088 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,474 | 100.0 | English only | 10,547 | 95.1 | |
| Never married | 2,206 | 23.3 | Language other than English | 541 | 4.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,674 | 59.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 222 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 86 | 0.9 | Spanish | 295 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 818 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 115 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 727 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 229 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 690 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 363 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,723 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 61 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 14,342 | 122.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 46 | 75.4 | Arab | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 227 | 1.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 338 | 2.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,918 | 100.0 | Dutch | 282 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,119 | 12.5 | English | 754 | 6.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 201 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 22 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,695 | 40.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,877 | 100.0 | Greek | 49 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 188 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,989 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,024 | 8.7 | |
| With a disability | 832 | 13.9 | Italian | 120 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 66.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 5,157 | 86.1 | Norwegian | 4,725 | 40.3 | |
| Percent employed | 87.9 | (X) | Polish | 88 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,007 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 676 | 33.7 | Russian | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 151 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 81 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,088 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,741 | 60.8 | Swedish | 459 | 3.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,192 | 37.8 | Swiss | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 2,070 | 18.7 | Ukrainian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,122 | 19.1 | United States or American | 347 | 3.0 | |
| Same state | 1,340 | 12.1 | Welsh | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 782 | 7.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 155 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 659 | 5.6 | |
| 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)

