
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clearfield 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 | 83,382 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 18,092 | 100.0 | Native | 82,822 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,217 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 82,551 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,005 | 5.6 | State of residence | 74,637 | 89.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,017 | 49.8 | Different state | 7,914 | 9.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,697 | 26.0 | Born outside United States | 271 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,156 | 11.9 | Foreign born | 560 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 136 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 349 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 58,138 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 211 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,964 | 6.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,188 | 14.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 29,643 | 51.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 560 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,631 | 11.4 | Europe | 250 | 44.6 | |
| Associate degree | 3,242 | 5.6 | Asia | 222 | 39.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,181 | 7.2 | Africa | 6 | 1.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,289 | 3.9 | Oceania | 8 | 1.4 | |
| Latin America | 59 | 10.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.1 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 2.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 78,881 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 67,908 | 100.0 | English only | 76,882 | 97.5 | |
| Never married | 15,604 | 23.0 | Language other than English | 1,999 | 2.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 39,734 | 58.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 589 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 1,249 | 1.8 | Spanish | 581 | 0.7 | |
| Widowed | 5,635 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 192 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 4,594 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,177 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 5,686 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 300 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 3,000 | 4.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 214 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 86 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 83,382 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,097 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 79,061 | 94.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 518 | 47.2 | Arab | 207 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 470 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 71 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 64,437 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,041 | 3.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 9,708 | 15.1 | English | 8,453 | 10.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 3,009 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 171 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 18,103 | 21.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 16,909 | 100.0 | Greek | 92 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,285 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 396 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 45,653 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 9,689 | 11.6 | |
| With a disability | 8,418 | 18.4 | Italian | 6,039 | 7.2 | |
| Percent employed | 46.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 715 | 0.9 | |
| No disability | 37,235 | 81.6 | Norwegian | 240 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 76.7 | (X) | Polish | 4,590 | 5.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 13,334 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 12 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 5,696 | 42.7 | Russian | 352 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,534 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,784 | 2.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2,262 | 2.7 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 78,881 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 26 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 55,289 | 70.1 | Swedish | 2,042 | 2.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 23,378 | 29.6 | Swiss | 248 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 14,478 | 18.4 | Ukrainian | 838 | 1.0 | |
| Different county | 8,900 | 11.3 | United States or American | 7,680 | 9.2 | |
| Same state | 5,961 | 7.6 | Welsh | 908 | 1.1 | |
| Different state | 2,939 | 3.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 214 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 6,076 | 7.3 | |
| 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)

