DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: State House District 1 001
[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 23,206 100.0
      enrolled in school 4,981 100.0   Native 23,038 99.3
Nursery school, preschool 300 6.0       Born in United States 22,920 98.8
Kindergarten 321 6.4           State of residence 15,152 65.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,677 53.7           Different state 7,768 33.5
High school (grades 9-12) 1,123 22.5       Born outside United States 118 0.5
College or graduate school 560 11.2   Foreign born 168 0.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 75 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 67 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 15,731 100.0       Not a citizen 101 0.4
Less than 9th grade 2,090 13.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,894 18.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 5,867 37.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 168 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,554 16.2   Europe 30 17.9
Associate degree 763 4.9   Asia 39 23.2
Bachelor's degree 990 6.3   Africa 2 1.2
Graduate or professional degree 573 3.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 94 56.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 68.3 (X)   Northern America 3 1.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 9.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 21,817 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 18,656 100.0   English only 21,358 97.9
Never married 3,177 17.0   Language other than English 459 2.1
Now married, except separated 11,738 62.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 184 0.8
Separated 365 2.0   Spanish 292 1.3
Widowed 1,481 7.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 124 0.6
 Female 1,265 6.8   Other Indo-European languages 80 0.4
Divorced 1,895 10.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 21 0.1
 Female 974 5.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 58 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 32 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 23,206 100.0
           under 18 years 404 100.0     Total ancestries reported 17,173 74.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 238 58.9   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 9 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 2 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 17,609 100.0   Dutch 187 0.8
Civilian veterans 2,247 12.8   English 1,485 6.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 198 0.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 45 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,076 4.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 4,994 100.0   Greek 33 0.1
With a disability 383 7.7   Hungarian 9 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 13,331 100.0   Irish¹ 2,139 9.2
With a disability 3,105 23.3   Italian 220 0.9
 Percent employed 39.7 (X)   Lithuanian 11 0.0
No disability 10,226 76.7   Norwegian 43 0.2
 Percent employed 76.0 (X)   Polish 48 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 3,206 100.0   Portuguese 2 0.0
With a disability 1,715 53.5   Russian 6 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 308 1.3
        Scottish 280 1.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 3 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 21,817 100.0   Subsaharan African 25 0.1
Same house in 1995 14,216 65.2   Swedish 59 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 7,495 34.4   Swiss 6 0.0
 Same county 4,315 19.8   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 3,180 14.6   United States or American 7,413 31.9
  Same state 1,298 5.9   Welsh 26 0.1
  Different state 1,882 8.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 106 0.5   Other ancestries 3,540 15.3
 
Date: September 19, 2007
 
-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.