
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clinton 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 | 50,149 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 12,977 | 100.0 | Native | 49,469 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 995 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 49,275 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 650 | 5.0 | State of residence | 38,660 | 77.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,019 | 46.4 | Different state | 10,615 | 21.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,168 | 24.4 | Born outside United States | 194 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,145 | 16.5 | Foreign born | 680 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 297 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 292 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 33,158 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 388 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,685 | 5.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,088 | 9.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,776 | 41.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 680 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,246 | 21.9 | Europe | 220 | 32.4 | |
| Associate degree | 2,594 | 7.8 | Asia | 186 | 27.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,459 | 10.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,310 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 195 | 28.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.6 | (X) | Northern America | 79 | 11.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 46,949 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 39,648 | 100.0 | English only | 45,441 | 96.8 | |
| Never married | 8,981 | 22.7 | Language other than English | 1,508 | 3.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,004 | 58.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 523 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 341 | 0.9 | Spanish | 863 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 3,266 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 328 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 2,719 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 501 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 4,056 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 146 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,179 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 133 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 50,149 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 526 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 51,722 | 103.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 234 | 44.5 | Arab | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 396 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,199 | 2.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 37,286 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,244 | 4.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,677 | 15.2 | English | 3,930 | 7.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,337 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 182 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 20,721 | 41.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 11,584 | 100.0 | Greek | 63 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 993 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 27,367 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,764 | 15.5 | |
| With a disability | 5,060 | 18.5 | Italian | 544 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 62.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 87 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 22,307 | 81.5 | Norwegian | 1,291 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 81.5 | (X) | Polish | 640 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,538 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 19 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,231 | 42.9 | Russian | 61 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 628 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 658 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 46,949 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 37 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 27,928 | 59.5 | Swedish | 1,244 | 2.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 18,722 | 39.9 | Swiss | 200 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 12,129 | 25.8 | Ukrainian | 20 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,593 | 14.0 | United States or American | 3,485 | 6.9 | |
| Same state | 3,127 | 6.7 | Welsh | 223 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 3,466 | 7.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 40 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 299 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 4,633 | 9.2 | |
| 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)

