
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Isabella 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 | 63,351 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 28,337 | 100.0 | Native | 61,884 | 97.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 816 | 2.9 | Born in United States | 61,626 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 725 | 2.6 | State of residence | 53,593 | 84.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,029 | 21.3 | Different state | 8,033 | 12.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,132 | 11.1 | Born outside United States | 258 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 17,635 | 62.2 | Foreign born | 1,467 | 2.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 885 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 487 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 31,677 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 980 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,579 | 5.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,835 | 8.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,731 | 33.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,467 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,096 | 22.4 | Europe | 269 | 18.3 | |
| Associate degree | 1,859 | 5.9 | Asia | 790 | 53.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,337 | 13.7 | Africa | 97 | 6.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,240 | 10.2 | Oceania | 7 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 105 | 7.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.1 | (X) | Northern America | 199 | 13.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 59,998 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 52,755 | 100.0 | English only | 57,098 | 95.2 | |
| Never married | 23,027 | 43.6 | Language other than English | 2,900 | 4.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,248 | 44.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 823 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 414 | 0.8 | Spanish | 985 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,107 | 4.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 302 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,759 | 3.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 851 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 3,959 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 150 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,187 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 598 | 1.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 317 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 63,351 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 620 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 65,903 | 104.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 216 | 34.8 | Arab | 292 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 433 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 314 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 50,427 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,144 | 3.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,594 | 9.1 | English | 7,333 | 11.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,066 | 4.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,505 | 2.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 17,815 | 28.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 19,409 | 100.0 | Greek | 233 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,379 | 7.1 | Hungarian | 543 | 0.9 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 34,436 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 8,007 | 12.6 | |
| With a disability | 4,995 | 14.5 | Italian | 1,976 | 3.1 | |
| Percent employed | 54.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 116 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 29,441 | 85.5 | Norwegian | 513 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 77.5 | (X) | Polish | 3,965 | 6.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,418 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 43 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,239 | 41.3 | Russian | 339 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 770 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,518 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 126 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 59,998 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 127 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 26,002 | 43.3 | Swedish | 1,031 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 32,974 | 55.0 | Swiss | 200 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 10,961 | 18.3 | Ukrainian | 181 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 22,013 | 36.7 | United States or American | 3,456 | 5.5 | |
| Same state | 19,223 | 32.0 | Welsh | 383 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 2,790 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 19 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,022 | 1.7 | Other ancestries | 9,455 | 14.9 | |
| 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)

