
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 | 9,458 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,230 | 100.0 | Native | 8,947 | 94.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 141 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 8,876 | 93.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 103 | 4.6 | State of residence | 6,879 | 72.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,076 | 48.3 | Different state | 1,997 | 21.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 602 | 27.0 | Born outside United States | 71 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 308 | 13.8 | Foreign born | 511 | 5.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 260 | 2.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 110 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,421 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 401 | 4.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 484 | 7.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 966 | 15.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,286 | 35.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 511 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,359 | 21.2 | Europe | 34 | 6.7 | |
| Associate degree | 286 | 4.5 | Asia | 6 | 1.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 698 | 10.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 342 | 5.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 463 | 90.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.4 | (X) | Northern America | 8 | 1.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,897 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,601 | 100.0 | English only | 7,999 | 89.9 | |
| Never married | 1,160 | 15.3 | Language other than English | 898 | 10.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,008 | 65.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 398 | 4.5 | |
| Separated | 102 | 1.3 | Spanish | 764 | 8.6 | |
| Widowed | 623 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 379 | 4.3 | |
| Female | 535 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 107 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 708 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 340 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,458 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 192 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,686 | 81.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 102 | 53.1 | Arab | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 26 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 21 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,135 | 100.0 | Dutch | 168 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,097 | 15.4 | English | 942 | 10.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 79 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 27 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 976 | 10.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,108 | 100.0 | Greek | 12 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 254 | 12.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,018 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 938 | 9.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,188 | 23.7 | Italian | 61 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 59.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,830 | 76.3 | Norwegian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 69.7 | (X) | Polish | 37 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,606 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 12 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 660 | 41.1 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 136 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 130 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,897 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,035 | 56.6 | Swedish | 58 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,648 | 41.0 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,200 | 13.5 | Ukrainian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,448 | 27.5 | United States or American | 1,719 | 18.2 | |
| Same state | 2,064 | 23.2 | Welsh | 37 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 384 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 214 | 2.4 | Other ancestries | 2,274 | 24.0 | |
| 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)

