
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Madison 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 | 69,441 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 20,630 | 100.0 | Native | 67,883 | 97.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,080 | 5.2 | Born in United States | 67,550 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 915 | 4.4 | State of residence | 57,903 | 83.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,228 | 39.9 | Different state | 9,647 | 13.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,308 | 20.9 | Born outside United States | 333 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 6,099 | 29.6 | Foreign born | 1,558 | 2.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 507 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 880 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 43,762 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 678 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,781 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,510 | 12.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 14,519 | 33.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,558 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,780 | 17.8 | Europe | 595 | 38.2 | |
| Associate degree | 4,717 | 10.8 | Asia | 507 | 32.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,647 | 12.9 | Africa | 27 | 1.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,808 | 8.7 | Oceania | 8 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 202 | 13.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.3 | (X) | Northern America | 219 | 14.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 65,323 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 55,341 | 100.0 | English only | 62,076 | 95.0 | |
| Never married | 15,395 | 27.8 | Language other than English | 3,247 | 5.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 30,209 | 54.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 944 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 1,291 | 2.3 | Spanish | 1,241 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 3,455 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 414 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 2,840 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,384 | 2.1 | |
| Divorced | 4,991 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 353 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,744 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 281 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 112 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 69,441 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 721 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 79,639 | 114.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 340 | 47.2 | Arab | 436 | 0.6 | |
| Czech¹ | 231 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 319 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 52,040 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,897 | 4.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,602 | 12.7 | English | 12,894 | 18.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,931 | 5.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,293 | 1.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 13,787 | 19.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 18,283 | 100.0 | Greek | 167 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,587 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 240 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 37,929 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 13,366 | 19.2 | |
| With a disability | 6,739 | 17.8 | Italian | 7,779 | 11.2 | |
| Percent employed | 54.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 175 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 31,190 | 82.2 | Norwegian | 483 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 79.6 | (X) | Polish | 3,893 | 5.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,273 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 92 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,962 | 35.8 | Russian | 656 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 976 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,583 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 106 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 65,323 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 57 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 40,102 | 61.4 | Swedish | 646 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 24,645 | 37.7 | Swiss | 488 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 12,014 | 18.4 | Ukrainian | 520 | 0.7 | |
| Different county | 12,631 | 19.3 | United States or American | 4,385 | 6.3 | |
| Same state | 9,141 | 14.0 | Welsh | 2,145 | 3.1 | |
| Different state | 3,490 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 145 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 576 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 5,949 | 8.6 | |
| 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)

