
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sheboygan 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 | 112,646 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 28,868 | 100.0 | Native | 107,829 | 95.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,105 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 107,455 | 95.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,512 | 5.2 | State of residence | 90,297 | 80.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 13,453 | 46.6 | Different state | 17,158 | 15.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 7,078 | 24.5 | Born outside United States | 374 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,720 | 16.4 | Foreign born | 4,817 | 4.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,182 | 1.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,541 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 74,561 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3,276 | 2.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,335 | 5.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,270 | 9.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 29,779 | 39.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4,817 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 14,670 | 19.7 | Europe | 1,038 | 21.5 | |
| Associate degree | 5,151 | 6.9 | Asia | 2,421 | 50.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 9,569 | 12.8 | Africa | 55 | 1.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,787 | 5.1 | Oceania | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 1,194 | 24.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.4 | (X) | Northern America | 93 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 105,384 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 89,106 | 100.0 | English only | 96,241 | 91.3 | |
| Never married | 20,717 | 23.2 | Language other than English | 9,143 | 8.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 54,452 | 61.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,024 | 3.8 | |
| Separated | 656 | 0.7 | Spanish | 3,192 | 3.0 | |
| Widowed | 5,957 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,353 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 4,766 | 5.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,665 | 2.5 | |
| Divorced | 7,324 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 660 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 3,917 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 3,174 | 3.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,985 | 1.9 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 112,646 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 886 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 129,561 | 115.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 409 | 46.2 | Arab | 83 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,018 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 654 | 0.6 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 83,926 | 100.0 | Dutch | 10,424 | 9.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 11,005 | 13.1 | English | 4,995 | 4.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,880 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 840 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 60,330 | 53.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 25,566 | 100.0 | Greek | 296 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,029 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 365 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 62,476 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 8,649 | 7.7 | |
| With a disability | 8,180 | 13.1 | Italian | 1,935 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 66.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 729 | 0.6 | |
| No disability | 54,296 | 86.9 | Norwegian | 3,299 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 86.3 | (X) | Polish | 5,703 | 5.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 14,612 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,819 | 33.0 | Russian | 2,708 | 2.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 438 | 0.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 556 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 232 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 105,384 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 121 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 62,459 | 59.3 | Swedish | 1,790 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 41,739 | 39.6 | Swiss | 509 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 27,802 | 26.4 | Ukrainian | 94 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 13,937 | 13.2 | United States or American | 5,100 | 4.5 | |
| Same state | 8,310 | 7.9 | Welsh | 355 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 5,627 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 26 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,186 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 14,430 | 12.8 | |
| 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)

