
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clarke 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 | 9,133 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,192 | 100.0 | Native | 8,902 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 170 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 8,883 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 4.3 | State of residence | 7,437 | 81.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,185 | 54.1 | Different state | 1,446 | 15.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 564 | 25.7 | Born outside United States | 19 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 179 | 8.2 | Foreign born | 231 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 89 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 41 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,070 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 190 | 2.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 367 | 6.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 578 | 9.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,613 | 43.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 231 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,378 | 22.7 | Europe | 9 | 3.9 | |
| Associate degree | 402 | 6.6 | Asia | 18 | 7.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 540 | 8.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 192 | 3.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 204 | 88.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,569 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,194 | 100.0 | English only | 8,156 | 95.2 | |
| Never married | 1,338 | 18.6 | Language other than English | 413 | 4.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,474 | 62.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 218 | 2.5 | |
| Separated | 64 | 0.9 | Spanish | 348 | 4.1 | |
| Widowed | 604 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 210 | 2.5 | |
| Female | 471 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 54 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 714 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 350 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 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 | 9,133 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 94 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,683 | 84.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 33 | 35.1 | Arab | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 36 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 154 | 1.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,736 | 100.0 | Dutch | 299 | 3.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 888 | 13.2 | English | 1,145 | 12.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 127 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 14 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,691 | 18.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,130 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 139 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,864 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 936 | 10.2 | |
| With a disability | 833 | 17.1 | Italian | 102 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 64.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,031 | 82.9 | Norwegian | 310 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 83.9 | (X) | Polish | 73 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,435 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 615 | 42.9 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 90 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 157 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,569 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,879 | 56.9 | Swedish | 262 | 2.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,624 | 42.3 | Swiss | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,523 | 17.8 | Ukrainian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,101 | 24.5 | United States or American | 1,303 | 14.3 | |
| Same state | 1,451 | 16.9 | Welsh | 105 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 650 | 7.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 66 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 831 | 9.1 | |
| 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)

