
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Scioto 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 | 79,195 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 18,990 | 100.0 | Native | 78,709 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 938 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 78,465 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 943 | 5.0 | State of residence | 64,822 | 81.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,099 | 47.9 | Different state | 13,643 | 17.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,802 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 244 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,208 | 16.9 | Foreign born | 486 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 222 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 188 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 52,236 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 298 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,775 | 9.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,748 | 16.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 20,833 | 39.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 486 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,430 | 18.1 | Europe | 164 | 33.7 | |
| Associate degree | 3,171 | 6.1 | Asia | 106 | 21.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,346 | 6.4 | Africa | 11 | 2.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,933 | 3.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 152 | 31.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.1 | (X) | Northern America | 53 | 10.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 74,199 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 63,587 | 100.0 | English only | 72,564 | 97.8 | |
| Never married | 14,058 | 22.1 | Language other than English | 1,635 | 2.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 35,309 | 55.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 472 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 1,312 | 2.1 | Spanish | 933 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 5,337 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 258 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 4,321 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 428 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 7,571 | 11.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 90 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 4,282 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 131 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 33 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 79,195 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,388 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 57,383 | 72.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 760 | 54.8 | Arab | 30 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 47 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 41 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 59,906 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,239 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,673 | 14.5 | English | 6,489 | 8.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,702 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 66 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 11,828 | 14.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 17,308 | 100.0 | Greek | 94 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,615 | 9.3 | Hungarian | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 42,908 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,919 | 10.0 | |
| With a disability | 11,297 | 26.3 | Italian | 1,134 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 32.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 31,611 | 73.7 | Norwegian | 124 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 70.6 | (X) | Polish | 424 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 10,869 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,564 | 51.2 | Russian | 78 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 700 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 881 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 20 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 74,199 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 169 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 46,206 | 62.3 | Swedish | 143 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 27,699 | 37.3 | Swiss | 121 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 19,740 | 26.6 | Ukrainian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 7,959 | 10.7 | United States or American | 14,220 | 18.0 | |
| Same state | 4,782 | 6.4 | Welsh | 775 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 3,177 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 294 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 9,022 | 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)

