DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Franklin 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 | 47,286 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,503 | 100.0 | Native | 46,647 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 563 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 46,430 | 98.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 637 | 6.1 | State of residence | 35,497 | 75.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,009 | 47.7 | Different state | 10,933 | 23.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,168 | 20.6 | Born outside United States | 217 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,126 | 20.2 | Foreign born | 639 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 147 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 430 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 33,037 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 209 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,072 | 12.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,120 | 15.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,765 | 32.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 639 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,484 | 19.6 | Europe | 265 | 41.5 | |
| Associate degree | 1,714 | 5.2 | Asia | 130 | 20.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,195 | 9.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,687 | 5.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 190 | 29.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.2 | (X) | Northern America | 54 | 8.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 44,747 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 38,545 | 100.0 | English only | 43,367 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 7,227 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 1,380 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 24,233 | 62.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 318 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 1,069 | 2.8 | Spanish | 791 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 2,738 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 232 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,253 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 510 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 3,278 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 77 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,604 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 61 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 47,286 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 576 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 36,301 | 76.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 201 | 34.9 | Arab | 70 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 158 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 41 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 36,826 | 100.0 | Dutch | 459 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,239 | 14.2 | English | 4,227 | 8.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 755 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 151 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,687 | 9.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,622 | 100.0 | Greek | 27 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 706 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 101 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 28,293 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,511 | 7.4 | |
| With a disability | 5,803 | 20.5 | Italian | 1,016 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 56.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 29 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 22,490 | 79.5 | Norwegian | 217 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 77.5 | (X) | Polish | 371 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,546 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,455 | 37.5 | Russian | 60 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 936 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 741 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 38 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 44,747 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 52 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 27,619 | 61.7 | Swedish | 173 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,885 | 37.7 | Swiss | 110 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 7,921 | 17.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 8,964 | 20.0 | United States or American | 11,125 | 23.5 | |
| Same state | 5,666 | 12.7 | Welsh | 226 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 3,298 | 7.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 39 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 243 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 6,977 | 14.8 | |
| 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)
