DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Portage 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 | 67,182 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 21,761 | 100.0 | Native | 65,724 | 97.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 955 | 4.4 | Born in United States | 65,492 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 939 | 4.3 | State of residence | 53,824 | 80.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,367 | 33.9 | Different state | 11,668 | 17.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,974 | 18.3 | Born outside United States | 232 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 8,526 | 39.2 | Foreign born | 1,458 | 2.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 689 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 624 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 40,143 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 834 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,420 | 6.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,019 | 7.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 14,952 | 37.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,458 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,572 | 18.9 | Europe | 315 | 21.6 | |
| Associate degree | 2,802 | 7.0 | Asia | 803 | 55.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 6,468 | 16.1 | Africa | 7 | 0.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,910 | 7.2 | Oceania | 16 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 241 | 16.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.5 | (X) | Northern America | 76 | 5.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 63,250 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 54,141 | 100.0 | English only | 59,193 | 93.6 | |
| Never married | 16,842 | 31.1 | Language other than English | 4,057 | 6.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 29,993 | 55.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,650 | 2.6 | |
| Separated | 451 | 0.8 | Spanish | 1,062 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 2,906 | 5.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 393 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 2,405 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,878 | 3.0 | |
| Divorced | 3,949 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 617 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 2,156 | 4.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,091 | 1.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 640 | 1.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 67,182 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 349 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 82,630 | 123.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 111 | 31.8 | Arab | 82 | 0.1 | |
| Czech� | 1,067 | 1.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 827 | 1.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 51,057 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,081 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,841 | 11.4 | English | 4,614 | 6.9 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 2,087 | 3.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 643 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 26,594 | 39.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 17,296 | 100.0 | Greek | 115 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,128 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 175 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 38,436 | 100.0 | Irish� | 6,172 | 9.2 | |
| With a disability | 4,424 | 11.5 | Italian | 1,532 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 62.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 150 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 34,012 | 88.5 | Norwegian | 4,700 | 7.0 | |
| Percent employed | 82.6 | (X) | Polish | 22,239 | 33.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,049 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 20 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,542 | 36.1 | Russian | 215 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 298 | 0.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 610 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 74 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 63,250 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 35,506 | 56.1 | Swedish | 1,586 | 2.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 27,314 | 43.2 | Swiss | 466 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 13,668 | 21.6 | Ukrainian | 30 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 13,646 | 21.6 | United States or American | 1,711 | 2.5 | |
| Same state | 10,276 | 16.2 | Welsh | 300 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 3,370 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 430 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 5,199 | 7.7 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| � 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 Communication System (ECS), Division of Health Communication and Marketing (DHCM), National Center for Health Marketing (NCHM)
