
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 | 22,151 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,644 | 100.0 | Native | 22,008 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 349 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 21,950 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 310 | 5.5 | State of residence | 11,280 | 50.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,984 | 52.9 | Different state | 10,670 | 48.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,317 | 23.3 | Born outside United States | 58 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 684 | 12.1 | Foreign born | 143 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 41 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 102 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,218 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 41 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,201 | 8.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,192 | 15.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,285 | 44.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 138 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,065 | 14.5 | Europe | 57 | 41.3 | |
| Associate degree | 693 | 4.9 | Asia | 42 | 30.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,071 | 7.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 711 | 5.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 34 | 24.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.1 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 3.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,617 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,993 | 100.0 | English only | 20,013 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 3,694 | 21.7 | Language other than English | 604 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,711 | 63.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 191 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 126 | 0.7 | Spanish | 336 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 1,041 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 77 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 859 | 5.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 227 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 1,421 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 99 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 729 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 41 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,151 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 358 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,824 | 89.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 96 | 26.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 16 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 39 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,922 | 100.0 | Dutch | 254 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,028 | 12.7 | English | 1,970 | 8.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 451 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 47 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 8,312 | 37.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,535 | 100.0 | Greek | 23 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 386 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 50 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,162 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,537 | 11.5 | |
| With a disability | 2,067 | 17.0 | Italian | 302 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 56.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,095 | 83.0 | Norwegian | 74 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 81.1 | (X) | Polish | 182 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,718 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,220 | 44.9 | Russian | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 199 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 221 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 34 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,617 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,892 | 62.5 | Swedish | 91 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,676 | 37.2 | Swiss | 51 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 3,423 | 16.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,253 | 20.6 | United States or American | 3,105 | 14.0 | |
| Same state | 2,040 | 9.9 | Welsh | 45 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 2,213 | 10.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 49 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 1,783 | 8.0 | |
| 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)

