
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Licking 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 | 145,491 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 37,916 | 100.0 | Native | 143,841 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,567 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 142,962 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,325 | 6.1 | State of residence | 113,859 | 78.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 17,427 | 46.0 | Different state | 29,103 | 20.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 8,462 | 22.3 | Born outside United States | 879 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 7,135 | 18.8 | Foreign born | 1,650 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 576 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 808 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 95,009 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 842 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,607 | 3.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,970 | 11.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 38,649 | 40.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,650 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 18,251 | 19.2 | Europe | 736 | 44.6 | |
| Associate degree | 6,028 | 6.3 | Asia | 515 | 31.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 11,989 | 12.6 | Africa | 108 | 6.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 5,515 | 5.8 | Oceania | 42 | 2.5 | |
| Latin America | 123 | 7.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.7 | (X) | Northern America | 126 | 7.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 135,588 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 114,121 | 100.0 | English only | 131,566 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 24,655 | 21.6 | Language other than English | 4,022 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 68,182 | 59.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,121 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 1,582 | 1.4 | Spanish | 1,528 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 7,013 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 506 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 5,751 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,813 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 12,689 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 403 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 7,143 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 449 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 125 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 145,491 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,107 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 140,612 | 96.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,017 | 48.3 | Arab | 226 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 429 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 239 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 107,489 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,816 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 16,525 | 15.4 | English | 17,383 | 11.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,446 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 537 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 37,173 | 25.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 34,318 | 100.0 | Greek | 480 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,741 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 1,123 | 0.8 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 83,450 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 21,033 | 14.5 | |
| With a disability | 14,088 | 16.9 | Italian | 6,283 | 4.3 | |
| Percent employed | 57.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 136 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 69,362 | 83.1 | Norwegian | 480 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 80.9 | (X) | Polish | 2,564 | 1.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 16,483 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 131 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 6,989 | 42.4 | Russian | 498 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,672 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,064 | 2.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 443 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 135,588 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 233 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 75,748 | 55.9 | Swedish | 722 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 59,366 | 43.8 | Swiss | 582 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 32,924 | 24.3 | Ukrainian | 201 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 26,442 | 19.5 | United States or American | 17,408 | 12.0 | |
| Same state | 19,276 | 14.2 | Welsh | 3,006 | 2.1 | |
| Different state | 7,166 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 51 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 474 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 16,253 | 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)

