DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Fulton 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 | 14,261 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,996 | 100.0 | Native | 14,164 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 131 | 4.4 | Born in United States | 14,120 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 207 | 6.9 | State of residence | 10,833 | 76.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,604 | 53.5 | Different state | 3,287 | 23.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 769 | 25.7 | Born outside United States | 44 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 285 | 9.5 | Foreign born | 97 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 29 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 53 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,687 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 44 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 867 | 9.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,726 | 17.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,681 | 48.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 97 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,089 | 11.2 | Europe | 60 | 61.9 | |
| Associate degree | 423 | 4.4 | Asia | 17 | 17.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 554 | 5.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 347 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 15 | 15.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.2 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 5.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 13,370 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,361 | 100.0 | English only | 13,139 | 98.3 | |
| Never married | 2,340 | 20.6 | Language other than English | 231 | 1.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,005 | 61.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 95 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 215 | 1.9 | Spanish | 105 | 0.8 | |
| Widowed | 860 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 693 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 112 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 941 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 46 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 462 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 14,261 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 218 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,739 | 82.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 93 | 42.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 19 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,769 | 100.0 | Dutch | 294 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,482 | 13.8 | English | 913 | 6.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 579 | 4.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 25 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,403 | 30.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,060 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 192 | 6.3 | Hungarian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,233 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,332 | 9.3 | |
| With a disability | 1,617 | 19.6 | Italian | 272 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 53.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,616 | 80.4 | Norwegian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 79.1 | (X) | Polish | 184 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,016 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 928 | 46.0 | Russian | 41 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 273 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 176 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 37 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 13,370 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,427 | 70.5 | Swedish | 61 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,911 | 29.3 | Swiss | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 2,247 | 16.8 | Ukrainian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,664 | 12.4 | United States or American | 1,858 | 13.0 | |
| Same state | 940 | 7.0 | Welsh | 84 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 724 | 5.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 32 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 1,097 | 7.7 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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