
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sanilac 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 | 44,547 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,139 | 100.0 | Native | 43,839 | 98.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 651 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 43,658 | 98.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 689 | 6.2 | State of residence | 39,485 | 88.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,559 | 49.9 | Different state | 4,173 | 9.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,009 | 27.0 | Born outside United States | 181 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,231 | 11.1 | Foreign born | 708 | 1.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 144 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 413 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 29,197 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 295 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,841 | 6.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,085 | 14.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,814 | 43.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 708 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,821 | 19.9 | Europe | 272 | 38.4 | |
| Associate degree | 1,721 | 5.9 | Asia | 113 | 16.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,796 | 6.2 | Africa | 2 | 0.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,119 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 59 | 8.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.7 | (X) | Northern America | 262 | 37.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 41,666 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 34,829 | 100.0 | English only | 39,714 | 95.3 | |
| Never married | 7,636 | 21.9 | Language other than English | 1,952 | 4.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,078 | 60.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 660 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 307 | 0.9 | Spanish | 666 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,700 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 228 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,180 | 6.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,160 | 2.8 | |
| Divorced | 3,108 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 388 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,614 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 90 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 44,547 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 542 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 48,594 | 109.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 223 | 41.1 | Arab | 83 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 148 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 245 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 32,560 | 100.0 | Dutch | 958 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,235 | 13.0 | English | 6,083 | 13.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,337 | 5.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,154 | 2.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 13,290 | 29.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,487 | 100.0 | Greek | 67 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 846 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 564 | 1.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 24,041 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,492 | 12.3 | |
| With a disability | 4,560 | 19.0 | Italian | 1,354 | 3.0 | |
| Percent employed | 54.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 66 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 19,481 | 81.0 | Norwegian | 282 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 76.7 | (X) | Polish | 4,617 | 10.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,639 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 30 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,780 | 41.9 | Russian | 184 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 838 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,591 | 3.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 78 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 41,666 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 26,442 | 63.5 | Swedish | 393 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 15,067 | 36.2 | Swiss | 195 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 7,790 | 18.7 | Ukrainian | 174 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 7,277 | 17.5 | United States or American | 3,494 | 7.8 | |
| Same state | 6,157 | 14.8 | Welsh | 142 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,120 | 2.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 157 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 4,727 | 10.6 | |
| 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)

