
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 | 37,914 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,857 | 100.0 | Native | 37,561 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 309 | 3.1 | Born in United States | 37,414 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 415 | 4.2 | State of residence | 33,602 | 88.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,764 | 38.2 | Different state | 3,812 | 10.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,962 | 19.9 | Born outside United States | 147 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,407 | 34.6 | Foreign born | 353 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 162 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 118 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 24,701 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 235 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,267 | 5.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,582 | 14.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 11,860 | 48.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 353 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,073 | 12.4 | Europe | 174 | 49.3 | |
| Associate degree | 1,612 | 6.5 | Asia | 124 | 35.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,073 | 8.4 | Africa | 5 | 1.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,234 | 5.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 32 | 9.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.4 | (X) | Northern America | 18 | 5.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 35,849 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 31,220 | 100.0 | English only | 34,166 | 95.3 | |
| Never married | 8,352 | 26.8 | Language other than English | 1,683 | 4.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 17,237 | 55.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 648 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 450 | 1.4 | Spanish | 421 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 2,582 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 143 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,986 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,161 | 3.2 | |
| Divorced | 2,599 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 449 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 1,445 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 78 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 37,914 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 544 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 35,798 | 94.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 317 | 58.3 | Arab | 26 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 92 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 30 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 29,753 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,703 | 4.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,482 | 15.1 | English | 2,807 | 7.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 588 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 84 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 12,267 | 32.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,547 | 100.0 | Greek | 57 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 677 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 83 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 20,737 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,294 | 11.3 | |
| With a disability | 4,129 | 19.9 | Italian | 2,725 | 7.2 | |
| Percent employed | 55.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 70 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 16,608 | 80.1 | Norwegian | 113 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 76.5 | (X) | Polish | 742 | 2.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,099 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,536 | 41.6 | Russian | 120 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 573 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 505 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 226 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 35,849 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 22,846 | 63.7 | Swedish | 457 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 12,811 | 35.7 | Swiss | 304 | 0.8 | |
| Same county | 7,060 | 19.7 | Ukrainian | 86 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 5,751 | 16.0 | United States or American | 4,188 | 11.0 | |
| Same state | 4,486 | 12.5 | Welsh | 244 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 1,265 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 192 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 3,383 | 8.9 | |
| 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)

