
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Presque Isle 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 | 14,411 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,000 | 100.0 | Native | 14,241 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 169 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 14,208 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 158 | 5.3 | State of residence | 12,873 | 89.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,397 | 46.6 | Different state | 1,335 | 9.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 833 | 27.8 | Born outside United States | 33 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 443 | 14.8 | Foreign born | 170 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 21 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 126 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,463 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 44 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 958 | 9.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,444 | 13.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,016 | 38.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 170 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,213 | 21.2 | Europe | 93 | 54.7 | |
| Associate degree | 631 | 6.0 | Asia | 17 | 10.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 774 | 7.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 427 | 4.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 3 | 1.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.0 | (X) | Northern America | 57 | 33.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,712 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,050 | 100.0 | English only | 13,048 | 95.2 | |
| Never married | 2,268 | 18.8 | Language other than English | 664 | 4.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,571 | 62.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 144 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 89 | 0.7 | Spanish | 56 | 0.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,167 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 884 | 7.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 584 | 4.3 | |
| Divorced | 955 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 127 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 444 | 3.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 14,411 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 134 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,413 | 113.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 56 | 41.8 | Arab | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 65 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 32 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,388 | 100.0 | Dutch | 252 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,113 | 18.6 | English | 1,463 | 10.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,062 | 7.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 376 | 2.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,711 | 32.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,810 | 100.0 | Greek | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 247 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 159 | 1.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,630 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,366 | 9.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,431 | 18.8 | Italian | 376 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 42.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 32 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 6,199 | 81.2 | Norwegian | 144 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 67.4 | (X) | Polish | 3,879 | 26.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,146 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,314 | 41.8 | Russian | 33 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 202 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 395 | 2.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 17 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,712 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,587 | 69.9 | Swedish | 146 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,094 | 29.9 | Swiss | 35 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,997 | 14.6 | Ukrainian | 41 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 2,097 | 15.3 | United States or American | 723 | 5.0 | |
| Same state | 1,761 | 12.8 | Welsh | 66 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 336 | 2.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 31 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 793 | 5.5 | |
| 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)

