
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Muskingum 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 | 84,585 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 21,558 | 100.0 | Native | 83,961 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,452 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 83,644 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,147 | 5.3 | State of residence | 73,497 | 86.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,148 | 47.1 | Different state | 10,147 | 12.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,045 | 23.4 | Born outside United States | 317 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,766 | 17.5 | Foreign born | 624 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 204 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 350 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 54,616 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 274 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,423 | 4.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,197 | 15.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 24,147 | 44.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 624 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,324 | 17.1 | Europe | 329 | 52.7 | |
| Associate degree | 3,626 | 6.6 | Asia | 233 | 37.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,377 | 8.0 | Africa | 4 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,522 | 4.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 46 | 7.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.6 | (X) | Northern America | 12 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 78,982 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 66,468 | 100.0 | English only | 76,871 | 97.3 | |
| Never married | 15,202 | 22.9 | Language other than English | 2,111 | 2.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 37,799 | 56.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 736 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 997 | 1.5 | Spanish | 753 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 4,994 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 252 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 4,109 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,009 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 7,476 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 295 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 4,068 | 6.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 323 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 189 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 84,585 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,222 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 67,611 | 79.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 484 | 39.6 | Arab | 269 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 303 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 81 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 62,567 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,620 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,504 | 13.6 | English | 8,570 | 10.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,626 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 103 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 15,904 | 18.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 20,027 | 100.0 | Greek | 208 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,671 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 373 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 46,469 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 9,122 | 10.8 | |
| With a disability | 9,062 | 19.5 | Italian | 1,748 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 52.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 58 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 37,407 | 80.5 | Norwegian | 371 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 78.1 | (X) | Polish | 1,008 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 11,162 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 29 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,785 | 42.9 | Russian | 132 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,400 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,457 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 211 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 78,982 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 136 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 47,755 | 60.5 | Swedish | 297 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 30,956 | 39.2 | Swiss | 192 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 20,783 | 26.3 | Ukrainian | 188 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 10,173 | 12.9 | United States or American | 12,270 | 14.5 | |
| Same state | 7,150 | 9.1 | Welsh | 962 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 3,023 | 3.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 271 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 8,971 | 10.6 | |
| 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)

