DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Saginaw 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 | 210,039 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 58,489 | 100.0 | Native | 205,749 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 3,566 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 205,029 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,299 | 5.6 | State of residence | 173,751 | 82.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 27,056 | 46.3 | Different state | 31,278 | 14.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 12,956 | 22.2 | Born outside United States | 720 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 11,612 | 19.9 | Foreign born | 4,290 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,553 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2,252 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 135,198 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,038 | 1.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,979 | 5.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 17,927 | 13.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 48,877 | 36.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4,290 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 29,897 | 22.1 | Europe | 1,126 | 26.2 | |
| Associate degree | 10,020 | 7.4 | Asia | 1,640 | 38.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 14,217 | 10.5 | Africa | 87 | 2.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 7,281 | 5.4 | Oceania | 29 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 984 | 22.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.6 | (X) | Northern America | 424 | 9.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 195,858 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 163,481 | 100.0 | English only | 183,338 | 93.6 | |
| Never married | 45,672 | 27.9 | Language other than English | 12,520 | 6.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 86,803 | 53.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,474 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 2,736 | 1.7 | Spanish | 7,199 | 3.7 | |
| Widowed | 12,179 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,957 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 9,933 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 3,598 | 1.8 | |
| Divorced | 16,091 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 842 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 9,157 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,151 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 500 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 210,039 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,982 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 229,474 | 109.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,959 | 49.2 | Arab | 498 | 0.2 | |
| Czech� | 2,317 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 472 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 154,141 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,095 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 19,756 | 12.8 | English | 16,980 | 8.1 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 13,713 | 6.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 4,065 | 1.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 61,430 | 29.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 50,449 | 100.0 | Greek | 688 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 4,785 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 1,963 | 0.9 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 115,189 | 100.0 | Irish� | 18,134 | 8.6 | |
| With a disability | 22,552 | 19.6 | Italian | 5,474 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 49.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 546 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 92,637 | 80.4 | Norwegian | 939 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 75.7 | (X) | Polish | 17,311 | 8.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 27,183 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 21 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 11,867 | 43.7 | Russian | 1,226 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,285 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 4,647 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 761 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 195,858 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,321 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 120,547 | 61.5 | Swedish | 1,646 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 73,743 | 37.7 | Swiss | 421 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 50,925 | 26.0 | Ukrainian | 387 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 22,818 | 11.7 | United States or American | 9,232 | 4.4 | |
| Same state | 15,867 | 8.1 | Welsh | 858 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 6,951 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 44 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,568 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 59,000 | 28.1 | |
| 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
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