

Calumet County has more bovines (cattle and calves) than people. The University of Wisconsin–Extension has compiled statistics on Calumet County's dairy industry. Additionally, there were 14 reported induced abortions performed on women of Calumet County residence in 2017. In 2017, there were 478 births, giving a general fertility rate of 52.0 births per 1000 women aged 15–44, the ninth lowest rate out of all 72 Wisconsin counties. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.00 males. For every 100 females there were 100.00 males. In the county, the population was spread out, with 28.60% under the age of 18, 7.20% from 18 to 24, 32.00% from 25 to 44, 21.40% from 45 to 64, and 10.80% who were 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.15. 20.40% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. There were 14,910 households, out of which 38.50% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.00% were married couples living together, 6.50% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.10% were non-families. 96.0% spoke English, 1.7% Spanish and 1.2% German as their first language. 1.07% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The racial makeup of the county was 96.68% White, 0.31% Black or African American, 0.34% Native American, 1.55% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.38% from other races, and 0.74% from two or more races. There were 15,758 housing units at an average density of 49 per square mile (19/km 2). The population density was 127 per square mile (49/km 2). The topography has been greatly influenced by glaciation.Īs of the census of 2000, there were 40,631 people, 14,910 households, and 11,167 families residing in the county. The Niagara Escarpment runs north–south several miles east of the western boundary. The west boundary is largely in Lake Winnebago. It is the fifth-smallest county in Wisconsin by land area and fourth-smallest by total area. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 397 square miles (1,030 km 2), of which 318 square miles (820 km 2) is land and 79 square miles (200 km 2) (20%) is water.
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Ĭalumet County figures prominently in the 2015 Netflix television series Making a Murderer, which documents the arrests and trials of Manitowoc County resident Steven Avery, which involves from 2005 the Calumet sheriff's department and district attorney's office of Ken Kratz. The county was legally organized on February 5, 1850, by Chapter 84 Laws of 1850. Many of the early European residents in the Holyland region in the southern part of the county were emigrants from the Schleswig- Holstein region in Germany in the 1840s. Each of the three groups are federally recognized with reservations in Wisconsin. The Oneida shared land on their reservation with these peoples, who had been displaced by the years of colonization in New England, warfare and disease. This was a second migration for the Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians, who had moved to New York after the American Revolutionary War. In the 1830s, the United States government relocated Native Americans from New York and New England to the southwest part of the county these included the Brothertown Indians, Oneida Indians, and Stockbridge-Munsee Indians. The county's name originated from the word calumet, the French name for the ceremonial pipes used by Native Americans in councils on the east shore of Lake Winnebago.
