
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Leelanau 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 | 21,119 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,224 | 100.0 | Native | 20,650 | 97.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 290 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 20,544 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 267 | 5.1 | State of residence | 16,264 | 77.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,549 | 48.8 | Different state | 4,280 | 20.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,349 | 25.8 | Born outside United States | 106 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 769 | 14.7 | Foreign born | 469 | 2.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 180 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 217 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,785 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 252 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 404 | 2.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 966 | 6.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,912 | 26.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 469 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,532 | 23.9 | Europe | 178 | 38.0 | |
| Associate degree | 1,335 | 9.0 | Asia | 59 | 12.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,913 | 19.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,723 | 11.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 166 | 35.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 90.7 | (X) | Northern America | 66 | 14.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 31.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,044 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,926 | 100.0 | English only | 18,932 | 94.5 | |
| Never married | 3,323 | 19.6 | Language other than English | 1,112 | 5.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,079 | 65.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 305 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 143 | 0.8 | Spanish | 589 | 2.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,015 | 6.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 216 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 801 | 4.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 368 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,366 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 61 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 747 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 42 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,119 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 200 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 26,012 | 123.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 68 | 34.0 | Arab | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 681 | 3.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 167 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,960 | 100.0 | Dutch | 867 | 4.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,623 | 16.4 | English | 3,256 | 15.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,844 | 8.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 564 | 2.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,132 | 29.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,689 | 100.0 | Greek | 61 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 310 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 118 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,626 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,813 | 13.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,579 | 13.6 | Italian | 652 | 3.1 | |
| Percent employed | 63.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 50 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 10,047 | 86.4 | Norwegian | 774 | 3.7 | |
| Percent employed | 79.3 | (X) | Polish | 2,336 | 11.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,579 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,215 | 33.9 | Russian | 102 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 388 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 792 | 3.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,044 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,276 | 61.2 | Swedish | 548 | 2.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,581 | 37.8 | Swiss | 116 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 2,560 | 12.8 | Ukrainian | 86 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 5,021 | 25.0 | United States or American | 907 | 4.3 | |
| Same state | 3,593 | 17.9 | Welsh | 196 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 1,428 | 7.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 187 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 2,506 | 11.9 | |
| 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)

