DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Census Tract 17
[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 3,965 100.0
      enrolled in school 995 100.0   Native 3,528 89.0
Nursery school, preschool 50 5.0       Born in United States 3,528 89.0
Kindergarten 47 4.7           State of residence 2,921 73.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 300 30.2           Different state 607 15.3
High school (grades 9-12) 154 15.5       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 444 44.6   Foreign born 437 11.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 214 5.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 231 5.8
  Population 25 years and over 2,869 100.0       Not a citizen 206 5.2
Less than 9th grade 31 1.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 174 6.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 435 15.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 437 100.0
Some college, no degree 474 16.5   Europe 159 36.4
Associate degree 184 6.4   Asia 132 30.2
Bachelor's degree 767 26.7   Africa 42 9.6
Graduate or professional degree 804 28.0   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 104 23.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 92.9 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 54.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,780 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 3,431 100.0   English only 3,354 88.7
Never married 1,556 45.4   Language other than English 426 11.2
Now married, except separated 1,206 35.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 93 2.5
Separated 73 2.1   Spanish 88 2.3
Widowed 336 9.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 19 0.5
 Female 243 7.1   Other Indo-European languages 214 5.7
Divorced 260 7.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 61 1.6
 Female 155 4.5   Asian and Pacific Island languages 67 1.8
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 3,965 100.0
           under 18 years 13 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,566 115.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 40 1.0
        Czech¹ 7 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 9 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 3,303 100.0   Dutch 68 1.7
Civilian veterans 348 10.5   English 319 8.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 165 4.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 94 2.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 443 11.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 605 100.0   Greek 63 1.6
With a disability 12 2.0   Hungarian 14 0.4
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,542 100.0   Irish¹ 1,065 26.9
With a disability 258 10.1   Italian 646 16.3
 Percent employed 60.5 (X)   Lithuanian 18 0.5
No disability 2,284 89.9   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 86.9 (X)   Polish 173 4.4
     Population 65 years and over 477 100.0   Portuguese 5 0.1
With a disability 120 25.2   Russian 138 3.5
        Scotch-Irish 95 2.4
        Scottish 61 1.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 14 0.4
  Population 5 years and over 3,780 N/A   Subsaharan African 72 1.8
Same house in 1995 1,960 51.9   Swedish 34 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,713 45.3   Swiss 13 0.3
 Same county 1,018 26.9   Ukrainian 31 0.8
 Different county 695 18.4   United States or American 187 4.7
  Same state 503 13.3   Welsh 14 0.4
  Different state 192 5.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 51 1.3
Elsewhere in 1995 107 2.8   Other ancestries 727 18.3
 
Date: June 19, 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.