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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Calhoun 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 15,069 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,470 100.0   Native 14,821 98.4
Nursery school, preschool 182 5.2       Born in United States 14,795 98.2
Kindergarten 273 7.9           State of residence 13,122 87.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,856 53.5           Different state 1,673 11.1
High school (grades 9-12) 821 23.7       Born outside United States 26 0.2
College or graduate school 338 9.7   Foreign born 248 1.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 181 1.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 50 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 10,021 100.0       Not a citizen 198 1.3
Less than 9th grade 1,510 15.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,054 20.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,469 34.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 248 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,522 15.2   Europe 37 14.9
Associate degree 444 4.4   Asia 7 2.8
Bachelor's degree 739 7.4   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 283 2.8   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 202 81.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 64.4 (X)   Northern America 2 0.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 14,119 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 11,950 100.0   English only 13,683 96.9
Never married 2,716 22.7   Language other than English 436 3.1
Now married, except separated 6,388 53.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 237 1.7
Separated 317 2.7   Spanish 357 2.5
Widowed 1,340 11.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 216 1.5
 Female 1,174 9.8   Other Indo-European languages 71 0.5
Divorced 1,189 9.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 21 0.1
 Female 607 5.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 4 0.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 15,069 100.0
           under 18 years 495 100.0     Total ancestries reported 10,281 68.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 276 55.8   Arab 6 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 11,227 100.0   Dutch 148 1.0
Civilian veterans 1,153 10.3   English 646 4.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 83 0.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 13 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 297 2.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 3,463 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 274 7.9   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 8,081 100.0   Irish¹ 961 6.4
With a disability 2,122 26.3   Italian 76 0.5
 Percent employed 45.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 5,959 73.7   Norwegian 2 0.0
 Percent employed 76.0 (X)   Polish 59 0.4
     Population 65 years and over 2,350 100.0   Portuguese 2 0.0
With a disability 1,347 57.3   Russian 7 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 143 0.9
        Scottish 68 0.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 14,119 100.0   Subsaharan African 70 0.5
Same house in 1995 9,512 67.4   Swedish 12 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 4,493 31.8   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 3,184 22.6   Ukrainian 2 0.0
 Different county 1,309 9.3   United States or American 3,404 22.6
  Same state 825 5.8   Welsh 13 0.1
  Different state 484 3.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 114 0.8   Other ancestries 4,269 28.3
 
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.
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