
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Brown 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 | 26,911 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,413 | 100.0 | Native | 26,572 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 457 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 26,502 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 316 | 4.3 | State of residence | 22,330 | 83.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,293 | 44.4 | Different state | 4,172 | 15.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,929 | 26.0 | Born outside United States | 70 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,418 | 19.1 | Foreign born | 339 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 153 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 193 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,485 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 146 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,870 | 10.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,337 | 7.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,724 | 38.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 339 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,567 | 20.4 | Europe | 90 | 26.5 | |
| Associate degree | 1,096 | 6.3 | Asia | 66 | 19.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,054 | 11.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 837 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 144 | 42.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.7 | (X) | Northern America | 39 | 11.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 25,487 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 21,576 | 100.0 | English only | 23,926 | 93.9 | |
| Never married | 5,350 | 24.8 | Language other than English | 1,561 | 6.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 13,118 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 476 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 142 | 0.7 | Spanish | 554 | 2.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,660 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 224 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,413 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 966 | 3.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,306 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 242 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 729 | 3.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 26,911 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 168 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 30,363 | 112.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 48 | 28.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 501 | 1.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 578 | 2.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 20,099 | 100.0 | Dutch | 345 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,668 | 13.3 | English | 717 | 2.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 545 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 163 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 17,602 | 65.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,670 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 367 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,043 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,500 | 5.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,591 | 11.3 | Italian | 79 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 61.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,452 | 88.7 | Norwegian | 3,252 | 12.1 | |
| Percent employed | 86.6 | (X) | Polish | 492 | 1.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,660 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 12 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,818 | 39.0 | Russian | 70 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 115 | 0.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 101 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 25,487 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,453 | 64.6 | Swedish | 1,190 | 4.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,910 | 35.0 | Swiss | 125 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 4,986 | 19.6 | Ukrainian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,924 | 15.4 | United States or American | 1,043 | 3.9 | |
| Same state | 1,999 | 7.8 | Welsh | 77 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,925 | 7.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 124 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,783 | 6.6 | |
| 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)

