
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 | 47,687 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,593 | 100.0 | Native | 46,771 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 676 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 46,563 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 428 | 3.7 | State of residence | 37,882 | 79.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,174 | 44.6 | Different state | 8,681 | 18.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,671 | 23.0 | Born outside United States | 208 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,644 | 22.8 | Foreign born | 916 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 508 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 298 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 32,388 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 618 | 1.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,803 | 8.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,071 | 12.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,166 | 31.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 916 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,357 | 19.6 | Europe | 188 | 20.5 | |
| Associate degree | 1,268 | 3.9 | Asia | 207 | 22.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,923 | 15.2 | Africa | 111 | 12.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,800 | 8.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 319 | 34.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.8 | (X) | Northern America | 91 | 9.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 44,777 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 38,744 | 100.0 | English only | 43,149 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 8,817 | 22.8 | Language other than English | 1,628 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 21,196 | 54.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 626 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 615 | 1.6 | Spanish | 880 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 2,767 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 438 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 2,271 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 492 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 5,349 | 13.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 114 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 3,294 | 8.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 155 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 65 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 47,687 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 674 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 40,100 | 84.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 378 | 56.1 | Arab | 64 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 29 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 48 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 36,749 | 100.0 | Dutch | 674 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,976 | 13.5 | English | 5,370 | 11.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 743 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 46 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,609 | 11.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,885 | 100.0 | Greek | 43 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 989 | 10.0 | Hungarian | 76 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 28,428 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,409 | 11.3 | |
| With a disability | 6,503 | 22.9 | Italian | 610 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 58.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 22 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 21,925 | 77.1 | Norwegian | 87 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 80.5 | (X) | Polish | 231 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,769 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 44 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,644 | 45.8 | Russian | 37 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,163 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 842 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 32 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 44,777 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 128 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 22,897 | 51.1 | Swedish | 158 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 21,197 | 47.3 | Swiss | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 12,619 | 28.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 8,578 | 19.2 | United States or American | 10,550 | 22.1 | |
| Same state | 5,493 | 12.3 | Welsh | 326 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 3,085 | 6.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 23 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 683 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 7,705 | 16.2 | |
| 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)

