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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 27,867 100.0
      enrolled in school 6,977 100.0   Native 27,718 99.5
Nursery school, preschool 456 6.5       Born in United States 27,681 99.3
Kindergarten 433 6.2           State of residence 24,747 88.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 3,779 54.2           Different state 2,934 10.5
High school (grades 9-12) 1,750 25.1       Born outside United States 37 0.1
College or graduate school 559 8.0   Foreign born 149 0.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 64 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 96 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 17,702 100.0       Not a citizen 53 0.2
Less than 9th grade 1,734 9.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 3,431 19.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 6,667 37.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 149 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,887 16.3   Europe 43 28.9
Associate degree 846 4.8   Asia 70 47.0
Bachelor's degree 1,343 7.6   Africa 2 1.3
Graduate or professional degree 794 4.5   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 22 14.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 70.8 (X)   Northern America 12 8.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 25,791 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 21,300 100.0   English only 25,245 97.9
Never married 4,921 23.1   Language other than English 546 2.1
Now married, except separated 11,955 56.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 148 0.6
Separated 524 2.5   Spanish 349 1.4
Widowed 2,265 10.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 99 0.4
 Female 1,832 8.6   Other Indo-European languages 134 0.5
Divorced 1,635 7.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 29 0.1
 Female 867 4.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 63 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 20 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 27,867 100.0
           under 18 years 850 100.0     Total ancestries reported 20,526 73.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 530 62.4   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 20,054 100.0   Dutch 159 0.6
Civilian veterans 2,253 11.2   English 1,090 3.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 260 0.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 44 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 542 1.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 6,850 100.0   Greek 14 0.1
With a disability 473 6.9   Hungarian 10 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 15,007 100.0   Irish¹ 975 3.5
With a disability 3,989 26.6   Italian 117 0.4
 Percent employed 49.7 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 11,018 73.4   Norwegian 16 0.1
 Percent employed 67.8 (X)   Polish 35 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 3,587 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 1,971 54.9   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 223 0.8
        Scottish 259 0.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 8 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 25,791 100.0   Subsaharan African 297 1.1
Same house in 1995 18,010 69.8   Swedish 8 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 7,685 29.8   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 5,191 20.1   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 2,494 9.7   United States or American 5,430 19.5
  Same state 1,585 6.1   Welsh 39 0.1
  Different state 909 3.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 96 0.4   Other ancestries 11,000 39.5
 
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.
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