
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Chisago 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 | 41,101 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,266 | 100.0 | Native | 40,623 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 817 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 40,451 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 729 | 6.5 | State of residence | 31,971 | 77.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,799 | 51.5 | Different state | 8,480 | 20.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,693 | 23.9 | Born outside United States | 172 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,228 | 10.9 | Foreign born | 478 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 116 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 226 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 25,859 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 252 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 970 | 3.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,950 | 7.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,603 | 37.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 478 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,087 | 27.4 | Europe | 142 | 29.7 | |
| Associate degree | 2,299 | 8.9 | Asia | 214 | 44.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,922 | 11.3 | Africa | 37 | 7.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,028 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 32 | 6.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.7 | (X) | Northern America | 53 | 11.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 37,974 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 30,794 | 100.0 | English only | 36,637 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 6,967 | 22.6 | Language other than English | 1,337 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 19,228 | 62.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 383 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 325 | 1.1 | Spanish | 427 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,462 | 4.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 123 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,185 | 3.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 606 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 2,812 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 93 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,429 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 188 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 114 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 41,101 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 480 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 52,258 | 127.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 200 | 41.7 | Arab | 84 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 867 | 2.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 776 | 1.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 28,734 | 100.0 | Dutch | 567 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,185 | 14.6 | English | 2,569 | 6.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,530 | 6.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 869 | 2.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 15,280 | 37.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,504 | 100.0 | Greek | 47 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 717 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 136 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 22,987 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,660 | 11.3 | |
| With a disability | 3,192 | 13.9 | Italian | 1,206 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 66.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 34 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 19,795 | 86.1 | Norwegian | 5,880 | 14.3 | |
| Percent employed | 84.7 | (X) | Polish | 2,334 | 5.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,886 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 25 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,461 | 37.6 | Russian | 108 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 257 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 402 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 62 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 37,974 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 21,749 | 57.3 | Swedish | 8,660 | 21.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,118 | 42.4 | Swiss | 187 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 4,977 | 13.1 | Ukrainian | 47 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 11,141 | 29.3 | United States or American | 1,020 | 2.5 | |
| Same state | 9,310 | 24.5 | Welsh | 48 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,831 | 4.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 107 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 3,558 | 8.7 | |
| 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)

