
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clinton 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 | 18,979 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,790 | 100.0 | Native | 18,881 | 99.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 372 | 7.8 | Born in United States | 18,792 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 240 | 5.0 | State of residence | 13,627 | 71.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,383 | 49.7 | Different state | 5,165 | 27.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,213 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 89 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 582 | 12.2 | Foreign born | 98 | 0.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 26 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 72 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,496 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 26 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 545 | 4.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,194 | 9.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,313 | 42.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 98 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,047 | 24.4 | Europe | 30 | 30.6 | |
| Associate degree | 579 | 4.6 | Asia | 40 | 40.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,287 | 10.3 | Africa | 3 | 3.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 531 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 20 | 20.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.1 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 5.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 17,741 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 14,862 | 100.0 | English only | 17,308 | 97.6 | |
| Never married | 2,704 | 18.2 | Language other than English | 433 | 2.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,401 | 63.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 142 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 204 | 1.4 | Spanish | 260 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,215 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 81 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,001 | 6.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 132 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,338 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 636 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 40 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 18,979 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 239 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,391 | 86.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 152 | 63.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 39 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 151 | 0.8 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 13,883 | 100.0 | Dutch | 420 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,213 | 15.9 | English | 2,114 | 11.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 519 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 122 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,753 | 19.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,534 | 100.0 | Greek | 19 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 256 | 5.6 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,489 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,333 | 12.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,612 | 15.4 | Italian | 436 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 58.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,877 | 84.6 | Norwegian | 126 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 171 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,370 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,003 | 42.3 | Russian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 448 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 312 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 17,741 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,534 | 53.7 | Swedish | 294 | 1.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,165 | 46.0 | Swiss | 76 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 2,760 | 15.6 | Ukrainian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 5,405 | 30.5 | United States or American | 2,626 | 13.8 | |
| Same state | 3,943 | 22.2 | Welsh | 217 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 1,462 | 8.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 42 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 2,157 | 11.4 | |
| 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)

