
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sauk 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 | 55,225 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 13,531 | 100.0 | Native | 54,157 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 841 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 53,862 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 718 | 5.3 | State of residence | 42,629 | 77.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,877 | 50.8 | Different state | 11,233 | 20.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,327 | 24.6 | Born outside United States | 295 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,768 | 13.1 | Foreign born | 1,068 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 406 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 496 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 36,701 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 572 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,335 | 6.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,711 | 10.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,867 | 37.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,068 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,699 | 21.0 | Europe | 545 | 51.0 | |
| Associate degree | 2,629 | 7.2 | Asia | 110 | 10.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,543 | 12.4 | Africa | 12 | 1.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,917 | 5.2 | Oceania | 14 | 1.3 | |
| Latin America | 329 | 30.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.5 | (X) | Northern America | 58 | 5.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 51,659 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 43,415 | 100.0 | English only | 49,062 | 95.0 | |
| Never married | 9,980 | 23.0 | Language other than English | 2,597 | 5.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 25,977 | 59.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,019 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 449 | 1.0 | Spanish | 970 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,875 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 386 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 2,436 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,431 | 2.8 | |
| Divorced | 4,134 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 557 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 2,293 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 65 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 55,225 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 596 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 65,051 | 117.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 260 | 43.6 | Arab | 37 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,168 | 2.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 697 | 1.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 40,787 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,086 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,321 | 13.0 | English | 4,983 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,910 | 3.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 406 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 27,996 | 50.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 12,770 | 100.0 | Greek | 59 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,036 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 117 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 30,701 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,414 | 13.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,824 | 15.7 | Italian | 979 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 67.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 92 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 25,877 | 84.3 | Norwegian | 4,579 | 8.3 | |
| Percent employed | 86.2 | (X) | Polish | 2,785 | 5.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,621 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 15 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,897 | 38.0 | Russian | 181 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 511 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 793 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 58 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 51,659 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 30,555 | 59.1 | Swedish | 1,032 | 1.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 20,783 | 40.2 | Swiss | 1,039 | 1.9 | |
| Same county | 11,553 | 22.4 | Ukrainian | 132 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 9,230 | 17.9 | United States or American | 2,850 | 5.2 | |
| Same state | 6,385 | 12.4 | Welsh | 342 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 2,845 | 5.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 321 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 3,769 | 6.8 | |
| 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)

