DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Fulton city
[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 11,855 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,003 100.0   Native 11,638 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 188 6.3       Born in United States 11,543 97.4
Kindergarten 159 5.3           State of residence 10,562 89.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,571 52.3           Different state 981 8.3
High school (grades 9-12) 628 20.9       Born outside United States 95 0.8
College or graduate school 457 15.2   Foreign born 217 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 39 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 96 0.8
  Population 25 years and over 7,614 100.0       Not a citizen 121 1.0
Less than 9th grade 462 6.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,258 16.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,081 40.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 217 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,308 17.2   Europe 68 31.3
Associate degree 613 8.1   Asia 14 6.5
Bachelor's degree 646 8.5   Africa 5 2.3
Graduate or professional degree 246 3.2   Oceania 6 2.8
        Latin America 101 46.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 77.4 (X)   Northern America 23 10.6
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 10,996 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 9,173 100.0   English only 10,390 94.5
Never married 2,515 27.4   Language other than English 606 5.5
Now married, except separated 4,479 48.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 145 1.3
Separated 405 4.4   Spanish 342 3.1
Widowed 798 8.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 97 0.9
 Female 665 7.2   Other Indo-European languages 243 2.2
Divorced 976 10.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 43 0.4
 Female 603 6.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 15 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 11,855 100.0
           under 18 years 119 100.0     Total ancestries reported 13,450 113.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 62 52.1   Arab 43 0.4
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 41 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 8,632 100.0   Dutch 318 2.7
Civilian veterans 1,295 15.0   English 1,652 13.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,173 9.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 430 3.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,813 15.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,796 100.0   Greek 35 0.3
With a disability 296 10.6   Hungarian 29 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 6,284 100.0   Irish¹ 2,112 17.8
With a disability 1,624 25.8   Italian 2,059 17.4
 Percent employed 44.9 (X)   Lithuanian 34 0.3
No disability 4,660 74.2   Norwegian 14 0.1
 Percent employed 74.8 (X)   Polish 673 5.7
     Population 65 years and over 1,832 100.0   Portuguese 17 0.1
With a disability 790 43.1   Russian 57 0.5
        Scotch-Irish 150 1.3
        Scottish 200 1.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 12 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 10,996 N/A   Subsaharan African 5 0.0
Same house in 1995 6,282 57.1   Swedish 48 0.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 4,635 42.2   Swiss 29 0.2
 Same county 3,539 32.2   Ukrainian 140 1.2
 Different county 1,096 10.0   United States or American 984 8.3
  Same state 823 7.5   Welsh 91 0.8
  Different state 273 2.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 18 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995 79 0.7   Other ancestries 1,273 10.7
 
Date: May 22, 2003
 
-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.