DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ontonagon 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 | 7,818 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,534 | 100.0 | Native | 7,707 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 67 | 4.4 | Born in United States | 7,680 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 103 | 6.7 | State of residence | 5,947 | 76.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 738 | 48.1 | Different state | 1,733 | 22.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 440 | 28.7 | Born outside United States | 27 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 186 | 12.1 | Foreign born | 111 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 12 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 48 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,899 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 63 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 378 | 6.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 578 | 9.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,566 | 43.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 111 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,221 | 20.7 | Europe | 76 | 68.5 | |
| Associate degree | 390 | 6.6 | Asia | 13 | 11.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 512 | 8.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 254 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.8 | (X) | Northern America | 22 | 19.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 7,484 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,579 | 100.0 | English only | 6,957 | 93.0 | |
| Never married | 1,292 | 19.6 | Language other than English | 527 | 7.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,960 | 60.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 71 | 1.1 | Spanish | 47 | 0.6 | |
| Widowed | 588 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 437 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 123 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 668 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 321 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,818 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 63 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,613 | 123.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 39 | 61.9 | Arab | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Czech� | 45 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 56 | 0.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,236 | 100.0 | Dutch | 92 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,341 | 21.5 | English | 736 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 633 | 8.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 257 | 3.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,591 | 20.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,401 | 100.0 | Greek | 21 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 91 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 40 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,381 | 100.0 | Irish� | 669 | 8.6 | |
| With a disability | 812 | 18.5 | Italian | 256 | 3.3 | |
| Percent employed | 36.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 20 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 3,569 | 81.5 | Norwegian | 270 | 3.5 | |
| Percent employed | 73.7 | (X) | Polish | 586 | 7.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,562 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 683 | 43.7 | Russian | 22 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 95 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 128 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 18 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 7,484 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,332 | 71.2 | Swedish | 520 | 6.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,130 | 28.5 | Swiss | 15 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,188 | 15.9 | Ukrainian | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 942 | 12.6 | United States or American | 322 | 4.1 | |
| Same state | 469 | 6.3 | Welsh | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 473 | 6.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 22 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 3,175 | 40.6 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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