
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kalkaska 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 | 16,571 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,785 | 100.0 | Native | 16,433 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 217 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 16,356 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 233 | 6.2 | State of residence | 13,928 | 84.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,977 | 52.2 | Different state | 2,428 | 14.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 959 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 77 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 399 | 10.5 | Foreign born | 138 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 35 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 82 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,073 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 56 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 540 | 4.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,679 | 15.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,942 | 44.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 138 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,281 | 20.6 | Europe | 62 | 44.9 | |
| Associate degree | 553 | 5.0 | Asia | 16 | 11.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 724 | 6.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 354 | 3.2 | Oceania | 6 | 4.3 | |
| Latin America | 14 | 10.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.0 | (X) | Northern America | 40 | 29.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,490 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,045 | 100.0 | English only | 15,211 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 2,736 | 21.0 | Language other than English | 279 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,980 | 61.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Separated | 172 | 1.3 | Spanish | 118 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 774 | 5.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 594 | 4.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 125 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,383 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 687 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,571 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 232 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,940 | 102.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 110 | 47.4 | Arab | 47 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 122 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 60 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,319 | 100.0 | Dutch | 744 | 4.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,153 | 17.5 | English | 2,204 | 13.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,060 | 6.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 504 | 3.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,087 | 24.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,750 | 100.0 | Greek | 25 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 420 | 11.2 | Hungarian | 108 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,403 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,061 | 12.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,040 | 21.7 | Italian | 393 | 2.4 | |
| Percent employed | 51.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 27 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 7,363 | 78.3 | Norwegian | 191 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 76.2 | (X) | Polish | 1,031 | 6.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,195 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 768 | 35.0 | Russian | 52 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 274 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 437 | 2.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 34 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,490 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,905 | 57.5 | Swedish | 305 | 1.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,475 | 41.8 | Swiss | 55 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 2,077 | 13.4 | Ukrainian | 61 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 4,398 | 28.4 | United States or American | 1,148 | 6.9 | |
| Same state | 3,781 | 24.4 | Welsh | 104 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 617 | 4.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 110 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 1,791 | 10.8 | |
| 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)

