
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Marquette 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 | 15,832 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,437 | 100.0 | Native | 15,602 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 146 | 4.2 | Born in United States | 15,501 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 148 | 4.3 | State of residence | 11,433 | 72.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,619 | 47.1 | Different state | 4,068 | 25.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,015 | 29.5 | Born outside United States | 101 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 509 | 14.8 | Foreign born | 230 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 41 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 158 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,428 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 72 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 817 | 7.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,603 | 14.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,733 | 41.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 230 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,477 | 21.7 | Europe | 136 | 59.1 | |
| Associate degree | 644 | 5.6 | Asia | 25 | 10.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 808 | 7.1 | Africa | 13 | 5.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 346 | 3.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 43 | 18.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.8 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 5.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,088 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,189 | 100.0 | English only | 14,149 | 93.8 | |
| Never married | 2,596 | 19.7 | Language other than English | 939 | 6.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,018 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 307 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 249 | 1.9 | Spanish | 420 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,014 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 133 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 767 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 411 | 2.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,312 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 143 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 496 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,832 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 184 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,663 | 111.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 71 | 38.6 | Arab | 62 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 173 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 146 | 0.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,488 | 100.0 | Dutch | 292 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,173 | 17.4 | English | 1,367 | 8.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 476 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 159 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,133 | 45.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,039 | 100.0 | Greek | 54 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 256 | 8.4 | Hungarian | 47 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,877 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,901 | 12.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,498 | 19.0 | Italian | 464 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 57.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 6,379 | 81.0 | Norwegian | 998 | 6.3 | |
| Percent employed | 78.2 | (X) | Polish | 1,377 | 8.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,790 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,109 | 39.7 | Russian | 33 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 160 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 257 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 19 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,088 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 51 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,741 | 57.9 | Swedish | 252 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,294 | 41.7 | Swiss | 93 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 2,184 | 14.5 | Ukrainian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 4,110 | 27.2 | United States or American | 651 | 4.1 | |
| Same state | 2,767 | 18.3 | Welsh | 119 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,343 | 8.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 53 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 1,334 | 8.4 | |
| 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)

