DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Green Island town
[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 2,278 100.0
      enrolled in school 476 100.0   Native 2,236 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 22 4.6       Born in United States 2,221 97.5
Kindergarten 15 3.2           State of residence 2,112 92.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 223 46.8           Different state 109 4.8
High school (grades 9-12) 113 23.7       Born outside United States 15 0.7
College or graduate school 103 21.6   Foreign born 42 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 37 1.6
  Population 25 years and over 1,588 100.0       Not a citizen 5 0.2
Less than 9th grade 45 2.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 169 10.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 749 47.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 42 100.0
Some college, no degree 318 20.0   Europe 30 71.4
Associate degree 129 8.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 113 7.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 65 4.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 7 16.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 86.5 (X)   Northern America 5 11.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,138 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,882 100.0   English only 2,027 94.8
Never married 699 37.1   Language other than English 111 5.2
Now married, except separated 777 41.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 26 1.2
Separated 50 2.7   Spanish 32 1.5
Widowed 199 10.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 6 0.3
 Female 154 8.2   Other Indo-European languages 79 3.7
Divorced 157 8.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 20 0.9
 Female 64 3.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 2,278 100.0
           under 18 years 11 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,989 131.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 11 100.0   Arab 5 0.2
        Czech¹ 8 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 8 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,795 100.0   Dutch 64 2.8
Civilian veterans 306 17.0   English 201 8.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 443 19.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 150 6.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 397 17.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 426 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 19 4.5   Hungarian 13 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,366 100.0   Irish¹ 779 34.2
With a disability 197 14.4   Italian 387 17.0
 Percent employed 54.3 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,169 85.6   Norwegian 8 0.4
 Percent employed 86.1 (X)   Polish 128 5.6
     Population 65 years and over 346 100.0   Portuguese 8 0.4
With a disability 85 24.6   Russian 15 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 26 1.1
        Scottish 66 2.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 1 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,138 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,280 59.9   Swedish 12 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 847 39.6   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 562 26.3   Ukrainian 29 1.3
 Different county 285 13.3   United States or American 58 2.5
  Same state 271 12.7   Welsh 24 1.1
  Different state 14 0.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 5 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995 11 0.5   Other ancestries 154 6.8
 
Date: September 10, 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.