
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Trempealeau 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 | 27,010 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,266 | 100.0 | Native | 26,806 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 360 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 26,725 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 362 | 5.8 | State of residence | 22,059 | 81.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,195 | 51.0 | Different state | 4,666 | 17.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,655 | 26.4 | Born outside United States | 81 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 694 | 11.1 | Foreign born | 204 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 91 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 101 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 18,317 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 103 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,688 | 9.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,806 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,485 | 40.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 204 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,387 | 18.5 | Europe | 78 | 38.2 | |
| Associate degree | 1,519 | 8.3 | Asia | 26 | 12.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,690 | 9.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 742 | 4.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 81 | 39.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.9 | (X) | Northern America | 19 | 9.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 25,376 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 21,410 | 100.0 | English only | 24,022 | 94.7 | |
| Never married | 4,897 | 22.9 | Language other than English | 1,354 | 5.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,542 | 58.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 404 | 1.6 | |
| Separated | 208 | 1.0 | Spanish | 392 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,834 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 170 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 1,501 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 939 | 3.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,929 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 232 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 895 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 27,010 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 184 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 34,318 | 127.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 46 | 25.0 | Arab | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 235 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 226 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 20,170 | 100.0 | Dutch | 259 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,511 | 12.4 | English | 1,489 | 5.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 504 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 178 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,665 | 35.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,050 | 100.0 | Greek | 18 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 407 | 6.7 | Hungarian | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,842 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,142 | 7.9 | |
| With a disability | 2,599 | 17.5 | Italian | 277 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 67.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 12,243 | 82.5 | Norwegian | 10,788 | 39.9 | |
| Percent employed | 86.2 | (X) | Polish | 5,371 | 19.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,010 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,424 | 35.5 | Russian | 41 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 201 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 249 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 15 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 25,376 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,227 | 63.9 | Swedish | 463 | 1.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,070 | 35.7 | Swiss | 338 | 1.3 | |
| Same county | 5,101 | 20.1 | Ukrainian | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,969 | 15.6 | United States or American | 555 | 2.1 | |
| Same state | 2,826 | 11.1 | Welsh | 100 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,143 | 4.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 79 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 1,095 | 4.1 | |
| 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)

