
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clarke 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 | 12,652 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,927 | 100.0 | Native | 12,340 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 193 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 12,256 | 96.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 169 | 5.8 | State of residence | 7,307 | 57.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,482 | 50.6 | Different state | 4,949 | 39.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 698 | 23.8 | Born outside United States | 84 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 385 | 13.2 | Foreign born | 312 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 90 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 151 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,015 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 161 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 656 | 7.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 962 | 10.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,963 | 32.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 312 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,859 | 20.6 | Europe | 122 | 39.1 | |
| Associate degree | 419 | 4.6 | Asia | 57 | 18.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,458 | 16.2 | Africa | 18 | 5.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 698 | 7.7 | Oceania | 9 | 2.9 | |
| Latin America | 89 | 28.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.1 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 5.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,008 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,190 | 100.0 | English only | 11,595 | 96.6 | |
| Never married | 2,047 | 20.1 | Language other than English | 413 | 3.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,103 | 59.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 105 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 218 | 2.1 | Spanish | 196 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 752 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 61 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 616 | 6.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 179 | 1.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,070 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 538 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,652 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 163 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,934 | 94.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 54 | 33.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 55 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 51 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,692 | 100.0 | Dutch | 243 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,545 | 15.9 | English | 2,010 | 15.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 380 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 31 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,209 | 17.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,627 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 162 | 6.2 | Hungarian | 34 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,347 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,595 | 12.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,296 | 17.6 | Italian | 414 | 3.3 | |
| Percent employed | 71.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 6,051 | 82.4 | Norwegian | 106 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 81.7 | (X) | Polish | 122 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,742 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 625 | 35.9 | Russian | 38 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 380 | 3.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 251 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,008 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,186 | 59.8 | Swedish | 125 | 1.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,759 | 39.6 | Swiss | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,341 | 11.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,418 | 28.5 | United States or American | 1,884 | 14.9 | |
| Same state | 2,379 | 19.8 | Welsh | 98 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,039 | 8.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 63 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,821 | 14.4 | |
| 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)

