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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 8,448 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,176 100.0   Native 8,421 99.7
Nursery school, preschool 132 6.1       Born in United States 8,419 99.7
Kindergarten 135 6.2           State of residence 7,382 87.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,094 50.3           Different state 1,037 12.3
High school (grades 9-12) 580 26.7       Born outside United States 2 0.0
College or graduate school 235 10.8   Foreign born 27 0.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 24 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 5,377 100.0       Not a citizen 3 0.0
Less than 9th grade 495 9.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,254 23.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,817 33.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 27 100.0
Some college, no degree 931 17.3   Europe 4 14.8
Associate degree 314 5.8   Asia 6 22.2
Bachelor's degree 377 7.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 189 3.5   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 17 63.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 67.5 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 7,888 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,611 100.0   English only 7,718 97.8
Never married 1,550 23.4   Language other than English 170 2.2
Now married, except separated 3,737 56.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 74 0.9
Separated 142 2.1   Spanish 146 1.9
Widowed 731 11.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 60 0.8
 Female 624 9.4   Other Indo-European languages 10 0.1
Divorced 451 6.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.0
 Female 231 3.5   Asian and Pacific Island languages 14 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 12 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 8,448 100.0
           under 18 years 243 100.0     Total ancestries reported 5,855 69.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 174 71.6   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 6 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,128 100.0   Dutch 17 0.2
Civilian veterans 707 11.5   English 314 3.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 56 0.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 10 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 248 2.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,111 100.0   Greek 6 0.1
With a disability 220 10.4   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,497 100.0   Irish¹ 354 4.2
With a disability 1,171 26.0   Italian 67 0.8
 Percent employed 38.9 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 3,326 74.0   Norwegian 49 0.6
 Percent employed 69.8 (X)   Polish 5 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 1,200 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 671 55.9   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 93 1.1
        Scottish 53 0.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 7,888 100.0   Subsaharan African 42 0.5
Same house in 1995 5,296 67.1   Swedish 8 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,562 32.5   Swiss 11 0.1
 Same county 1,390 17.6   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 1,172 14.9   United States or American 1,657 19.6
  Same state 631 8.0   Welsh 9 0.1
  Different state 541 6.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 30 0.4   Other ancestries 2,850 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.
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