
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Franklin Parish
[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 | 21,263 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,329 | 100.0 | Native | 21,136 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 435 | 8.2 | Born in United States | 21,109 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 351 | 6.6 | State of residence | 18,122 | 85.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,686 | 50.4 | Different state | 2,987 | 14.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,393 | 26.1 | Born outside United States | 27 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 464 | 8.7 | Foreign born | 127 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 60 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 69 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,423 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 58 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,332 | 17.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,846 | 21.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,904 | 36.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 127 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,871 | 13.9 | Europe | 23 | 18.1 | |
| Associate degree | 160 | 1.2 | Asia | 67 | 52.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 833 | 6.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 477 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 24 | 18.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 61.4 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 10.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 19,738 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,357 | 100.0 | English only | 19,390 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 3,972 | 24.3 | Language other than English | 348 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,724 | 53.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 104 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 512 | 3.1 | Spanish | 154 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,767 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,432 | 8.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 154 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,382 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 772 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 40 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 21,263 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 606 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,354 | 76.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 349 | 57.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 14 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,319 | 100.0 | Dutch | 133 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,741 | 11.4 | English | 934 | 4.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 494 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 61 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 616 | 2.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,272 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 306 | 5.8 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,740 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,352 | 6.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,132 | 19.9 | Italian | 175 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 40.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 8,608 | 80.1 | Norwegian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 66.6 | (X) | Polish | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,962 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,537 | 51.9 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 233 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 113 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 19,738 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,827 | 65.0 | Swedish | 47 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,832 | 34.6 | Swiss | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 4,533 | 23.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,299 | 11.6 | United States or American | 4,910 | 23.1 | |
| Same state | 1,656 | 8.4 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 643 | 3.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 79 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 7,171 | 33.7 | |
| 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)

