DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clayton 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 | 236,517 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 68,358 | 100.0 | Native | 210,628 | 89.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,863 | 8.6 | Born in United States | 207,019 | 87.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,375 | 6.4 | State of residence | 121,570 | 51.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 32,905 | 48.1 | Different state | 85,449 | 36.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 14,173 | 20.7 | Born outside United States | 3,609 | 1.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 11,042 | 16.2 | Foreign born | 25,889 | 10.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 15,516 | 6.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 7,841 | 3.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 141,554 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 18,048 | 7.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 9,122 | 6.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 19,099 | 13.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 45,143 | 31.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 25,889 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 36,151 | 25.5 | Europe | 1,097 | 4.2 | |
| Associate degree | 8,495 | 6.0 | Asia | 8,816 | 34.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 17,280 | 12.2 | Africa | 2,505 | 9.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 6,264 | 4.4 | Oceania | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 13,237 | 51.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.1 | (X) | Northern America | 213 | 0.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 216,690 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 176,256 | 100.0 | English only | 184,297 | 85.1 | |
| Never married | 55,251 | 31.3 | Language other than English | 32,393 | 14.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 86,186 | 48.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17,588 | 8.1 | |
| Separated | 5,414 | 3.1 | Spanish | 16,795 | 7.8 | |
| Widowed | 7,421 | 4.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10,101 | 4.7 | |
| Female | 5,979 | 3.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 4,995 | 2.3 | |
| Divorced | 21,984 | 12.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,431 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 13,477 | 7.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8,421 | 3.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,756 | 2.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 236,517 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 7,056 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 210,988 | 89.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,984 | 42.3 | Arab | 385 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 144 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 127 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 164,628 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,384 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 24,062 | 14.6 | English | 9,571 | 4.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,002 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 470 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,533 | 4.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 60,750 | 100.0 | Greek | 184 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,807 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 130 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 139,488 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 11,682 | 4.9 | |
| With a disability | 28,061 | 20.1 | Italian | 2,796 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 59.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 130 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 111,427 | 79.9 | Norwegian | 460 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 78.8 | (X) | Polish | 986 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 13,263 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 197 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 6,125 | 46.2 | Russian | 199 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,177 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,030 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 38 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 216,690 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4,725 | 2.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 89,982 | 41.5 | Swedish | 415 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 117,599 | 54.3 | Swiss | 77 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 43,310 | 20.0 | Ukrainian | 68 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 74,289 | 34.3 | United States or American | 19,014 | 8.0 | |
| Same state | 44,405 | 20.5 | Welsh | 604 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 29,884 | 13.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3,113 | 1.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 9,109 | 4.2 | Other ancestries | 138,347 | 58.5 | |
| 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)
