
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Winona 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 | 49,985 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 17,104 | 100.0 | Native | 48,631 | 97.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 748 | 4.4 | Born in United States | 48,437 | 96.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 532 | 3.1 | State of residence | 32,235 | 64.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,381 | 31.5 | Different state | 16,202 | 32.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,878 | 16.8 | Born outside United States | 194 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 7,565 | 44.2 | Foreign born | 1,354 | 2.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 735 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 499 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 29,165 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 855 | 1.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,081 | 7.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,586 | 8.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,802 | 30.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,354 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,679 | 22.9 | Europe | 230 | 17.0 | |
| Associate degree | 2,242 | 7.7 | Asia | 710 | 52.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,658 | 16.0 | Africa | 71 | 5.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,117 | 7.3 | Oceania | 19 | 1.4 | |
| Latin America | 222 | 16.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.0 | (X) | Northern America | 102 | 7.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 47,205 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 40,706 | 100.0 | English only | 44,365 | 94.0 | |
| Never married | 13,748 | 33.8 | Language other than English | 2,840 | 6.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 20,999 | 51.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,152 | 2.4 | |
| Separated | 278 | 0.7 | Spanish | 1,086 | 2.3 | |
| Widowed | 2,571 | 6.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 437 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 2,129 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,055 | 2.2 | |
| Divorced | 3,110 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 366 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 1,688 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 642 | 1.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 340 | 0.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 49,985 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 241 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 62,352 | 124.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 150 | 62.2 | Arab | 104 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 982 | 2.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 555 | 1.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 38,564 | 100.0 | Dutch | 811 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,591 | 11.9 | English | 2,905 | 5.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,559 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 371 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 23,716 | 47.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 13,589 | 100.0 | Greek | 72 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,008 | 7.4 | Hungarian | 164 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 27,008 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,902 | 11.8 | |
| With a disability | 3,497 | 12.9 | Italian | 820 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 65.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 39 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 23,511 | 87.1 | Norwegian | 8,401 | 16.8 | |
| Percent employed | 83.6 | (X) | Polish | 6,216 | 12.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,049 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 17 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,325 | 38.4 | Russian | 135 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 354 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 529 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 31 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 47,205 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 90 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 25,864 | 54.8 | Swedish | 1,460 | 2.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 20,767 | 44.0 | Swiss | 394 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 10,471 | 22.2 | Ukrainian | 61 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 10,296 | 21.8 | United States or American | 1,685 | 3.4 | |
| Same state | 5,219 | 11.1 | Welsh | 196 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 5,077 | 10.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 574 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 4,775 | 9.6 | |
| 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)

