
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 | 64,753 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 18,094 | 100.0 | Native | 63,970 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,021 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 63,714 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,152 | 6.4 | State of residence | 55,685 | 86.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,506 | 47.0 | Different state | 8,029 | 12.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,267 | 23.6 | Born outside United States | 256 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,148 | 17.4 | Foreign born | 783 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 192 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 418 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 41,864 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 365 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,577 | 3.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,945 | 7.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,753 | 32.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 783 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 10,962 | 26.2 | Europe | 293 | 37.4 | |
| Associate degree | 3,740 | 8.9 | Asia | 247 | 31.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,793 | 13.8 | Africa | 2 | 0.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,094 | 7.4 | Oceania | 4 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 112 | 14.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 89.2 | (X) | Northern America | 125 | 16.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 60,284 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 49,856 | 100.0 | English only | 57,876 | 96.0 | |
| Never married | 10,684 | 21.4 | Language other than English | 2,408 | 4.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 31,716 | 63.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 566 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 362 | 0.7 | Spanish | 1,170 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 2,718 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 296 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 2,245 | 4.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 947 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 4,376 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 156 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,299 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 229 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 114 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 64,753 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 643 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 70,118 | 108.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 218 | 33.9 | Arab | 142 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,137 | 1.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 335 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 46,531 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,573 | 4.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,698 | 12.2 | English | 8,991 | 13.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,983 | 4.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,098 | 1.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 22,552 | 34.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 15,845 | 100.0 | Greek | 161 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,254 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 477 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 37,356 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 7,561 | 11.7 | |
| With a disability | 5,433 | 14.5 | Italian | 1,393 | 2.2 | |
| Percent employed | 64.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 91 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 31,923 | 85.5 | Norwegian | 528 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 82.1 | (X) | Polish | 2,727 | 4.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,493 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 23 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,584 | 39.8 | Russian | 202 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 647 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,740 | 2.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 386 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 60,284 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 38,124 | 63.2 | Swedish | 863 | 1.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 21,939 | 36.4 | Swiss | 159 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 9,039 | 15.0 | Ukrainian | 176 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 12,900 | 21.4 | United States or American | 5,097 | 7.9 | |
| Same state | 11,154 | 18.5 | Welsh | 304 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 1,746 | 2.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 221 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 7,726 | 11.9 | |
| 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)

