
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 | 79,894 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 22,184 | 100.0 | Native | 76,266 | 95.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 855 | 3.9 | Born in United States | 75,378 | 94.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,117 | 5.0 | State of residence | 63,645 | 79.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,095 | 41.0 | Different state | 11,733 | 14.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,464 | 20.1 | Born outside United States | 888 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 6,653 | 30.0 | Foreign born | 3,628 | 4.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,093 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,578 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 51,598 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,050 | 2.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,326 | 8.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,845 | 15.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 17,291 | 33.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3,628 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 8,681 | 16.8 | Europe | 819 | 22.6 | |
| Associate degree | 4,269 | 8.3 | Asia | 647 | 17.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,038 | 9.8 | Africa | 86 | 2.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 4,148 | 8.0 | Oceania | 18 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 677 | 18.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.4 | (X) | Northern America | 1,381 | 38.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 75,795 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 64,924 | 100.0 | English only | 71,003 | 93.7 | |
| Never married | 19,572 | 30.1 | Language other than English | 4,792 | 6.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 33,418 | 51.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,471 | 1.9 | |
| Separated | 2,090 | 3.2 | Spanish | 1,287 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 4,344 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 495 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 3,531 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,989 | 3.9 | |
| Divorced | 5,500 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 785 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 2,856 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 403 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 174 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 79,894 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 959 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 80,406 | 100.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 452 | 47.1 | Arab | 276 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 178 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 120 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 61,542 | 100.0 | Dutch | 974 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,375 | 13.6 | English | 7,500 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 17,626 | 22.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 9,500 | 11.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,606 | 7.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 18,956 | 100.0 | Greek | 244 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,692 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 329 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 43,344 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 11,585 | 14.5 | |
| With a disability | 8,344 | 19.3 | Italian | 3,395 | 4.2 | |
| Percent employed | 48.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 172 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 35,000 | 80.7 | Norwegian | 320 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 77.5 | (X) | Polish | 2,049 | 2.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,966 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 136 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,826 | 42.7 | Russian | 218 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,099 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,587 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 77 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 75,795 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 43,895 | 57.9 | Swedish | 242 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 30,743 | 40.6 | Swiss | 62 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 18,385 | 24.3 | Ukrainian | 165 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 12,358 | 16.3 | United States or American | 7,286 | 9.1 | |
| Same state | 8,664 | 11.4 | Welsh | 472 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 3,694 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 134 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,157 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 8,988 | 11.2 | |
| 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)

