
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Franklin 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 | 3,574 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 829 | 100.0 | Native | 3,553 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 57 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 3,551 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 5.2 | State of residence | 2,812 | 78.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 422 | 50.9 | Different state | 739 | 20.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 224 | 27.0 | Born outside United States | 2 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 83 | 10.0 | Foreign born | 21 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 6 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,533 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 19 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 188 | 7.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 173 | 6.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 996 | 39.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 21 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 609 | 24.0 | Europe | 8 | 38.1 | |
| Associate degree | 166 | 6.6 | Asia | 5 | 23.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 278 | 11.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 123 | 4.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 6 | 28.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 9.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,377 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,872 | 100.0 | English only | 3,289 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 464 | 16.2 | Language other than English | 88 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,871 | 65.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 53 | 1.8 | Spanish | 35 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 290 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 248 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 48 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 194 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 102 | 3.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 3,574 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 34 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,574 | 100.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 8 | 23.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 45 | 1.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 103 | 2.9 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,697 | 100.0 | Dutch | 62 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 449 | 16.6 | English | 332 | 9.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 108 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 13 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,845 | 51.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 756 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 46 | 6.1 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,773 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 357 | 10.0 | |
| With a disability | 358 | 20.2 | Italian | 16 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 57.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,415 | 79.8 | Norwegian | 42 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 85.3 | (X) | Polish | 53 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 768 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 328 | 42.7 | Russian | 9 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 49 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 27 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,377 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,398 | 71.0 | Swedish | 156 | 4.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 963 | 28.5 | Swiss | 12 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 470 | 13.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 493 | 14.6 | United States or American | 182 | 5.1 | |
| Same state | 340 | 10.1 | Welsh | 7 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 153 | 4.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 16 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 152 | 4.3 | |
| 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)

