DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Fulton 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 | 816,006 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 219,663 | 100.0 | Native | 737,387 | 90.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 19,176 | 8.7 | Born in United States | 729,599 | 89.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 11,791 | 5.4 | State of residence | 386,934 | 47.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 91,474 | 41.6 | Different state | 342,665 | 42.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 42,144 | 19.2 | Born outside United States | 7,788 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 55,078 | 25.1 | Foreign born | 78,619 | 9.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 50,115 | 6.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 21,268 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 527,738 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 57,351 | 7.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 27,106 | 5.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 57,264 | 10.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 102,246 | 19.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 78,619 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 97,894 | 18.5 | Europe | 11,673 | 14.8 | |
| Associate degree | 24,823 | 4.7 | Asia | 20,175 | 25.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 140,666 | 26.7 | Africa | 6,227 | 7.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 77,739 | 14.7 | Oceania | 373 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 37,231 | 47.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.0 | (X) | Northern America | 2,940 | 3.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 41.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 759,179 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 646,833 | 100.0 | English only | 658,421 | 86.7 | |
| Never married | 242,652 | 37.5 | Language other than English | 100,758 | 13.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 277,638 | 42.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 47,889 | 6.3 | |
| Separated | 19,088 | 3.0 | Spanish | 52,371 | 6.9 | |
| Widowed | 38,552 | 6.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30,828 | 4.1 | |
| Female | 31,684 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 27,244 | 3.6 | |
| Divorced | 68,903 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8,145 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 41,088 | 6.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 15,825 | 2.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,554 | 1.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 816,006 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 17,828 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 761,005 | 93.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 8,384 | 47.0 | Arab | 2,713 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,926 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,782 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 616,357 | 100.0 | Dutch | 6,105 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 61,642 | 10.0 | English | 64,957 | 8.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 13,744 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,718 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 59,356 | 7.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 178,266 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,718 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 14,496 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 2,337 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 502,583 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 55,810 | 6.8 | |
| With a disability | 91,437 | 18.2 | Italian | 23,909 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 56.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,197 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 411,146 | 81.8 | Norwegian | 4,131 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 75.6 | (X) | Polish | 11,742 | 1.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 68,004 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 780 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 31,169 | 45.8 | Russian | 8,759 | 1.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 14,496 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 16,188 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 863 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 759,179 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 13,395 | 1.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 324,989 | 42.8 | Swedish | 5,098 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 397,438 | 52.4 | Swiss | 1,493 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 178,091 | 23.5 | Ukrainian | 1,621 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 219,347 | 28.9 | United States or American | 41,110 | 5.0 | |
| Same state | 90,541 | 11.9 | Welsh | 3,805 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 128,806 | 17.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5,664 | 0.7 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 36,752 | 4.8 | Other ancestries | 392,588 | 48.1 | |
| 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)
