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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kenosha 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 149,577 100.0
      enrolled in school 42,684 100.0   Native 142,433 95.2
Nursery school, preschool 2,559 6.0       Born in United States 141,247 94.4
Kindergarten 2,402 5.6           State of residence 82,623 55.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 19,493 45.7           Different state 58,624 39.2
High school (grades 9-12) 8,599 20.1       Born outside United States 1,186 0.8
College or graduate school 9,631 22.6   Foreign born 7,144 4.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 2,571 1.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 3,486 2.3
  Population 25 years and over 95,038 100.0       Not a citizen 3,658 2.4
Less than 9th grade 4,370 4.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 11,275 11.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 31,711 33.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 7,144 100.0
Some college, no degree 22,286 23.4   Europe 2,767 38.7
Associate degree 7,150 7.5   Asia 1,210 16.9
Bachelor's degree 12,290 12.9   Africa 73 1.0
Graduate or professional degree 5,956 6.3   Oceania 39 0.5
        Latin America 2,903 40.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 83.5 (X)   Northern America 152 2.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 19.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 139,358 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 115,811 100.0   English only 125,839 90.3
Never married 30,252 26.1   Language other than English 13,519 9.7
Now married, except separated 64,298 55.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 4,690 3.4
Separated 1,946 1.7   Spanish 7,435 5.3
Widowed 7,268 6.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2,843 2.0
 Female 5,865 5.1   Other Indo-European languages 4,871 3.5
Divorced 12,047 10.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,417 1.0
 Female 6,813 5.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 812 0.6
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 286 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 149,577 100.0
           under 18 years 2,024 100.0     Total ancestries reported 186,832 124.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 944 46.6   Arab 381 0.3
        Czech¹ 2,198 1.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 3,607 2.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 108,984 100.0   Dutch 3,189 2.1
Civilian veterans 14,453 13.3   English 11,489 7.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 6,272 4.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 1,306 0.9
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 51,915 34.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 36,560 100.0   Greek 688 0.5
With a disability 3,052 8.3   Hungarian 853 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 84,519 100.0   Irish¹ 19,300 12.9
With a disability 14,352 17.0   Italian 16,102 10.8
 Percent employed 58.2 (X)   Lithuanian 1,581 1.1
No disability 70,167 83.0   Norwegian 6,277 4.2
 Percent employed 81.4 (X)   Polish 14,214 9.5
     Population 65 years and over 16,426 100.0   Portuguese 115 0.1
With a disability 6,291 38.3   Russian 878 0.6
        Scotch-Irish 1,482 1.0
        Scottish 1,893 1.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 1,101 0.7
  Population 5 years and over 139,358 100.0   Subsaharan African 548 0.4
Same house in 1995 77,627 55.7   Swedish 4,971 3.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 59,940 43.0   Swiss 699 0.5
 Same county 33,547 24.1   Ukrainian 313 0.2
 Different county 26,393 18.9   United States or American 5,721 3.8
  Same state 7,308 5.2   Welsh 959 0.6
  Different state 19,085 13.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 117 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 1,791 1.3   Other ancestries 28,663 19.2
 
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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