DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Berne 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 2,846 100.0
      enrolled in school 686 100.0   Native 2,783 97.8
Nursery school, preschool 15 2.2       Born in United States 2,771 97.4
Kindergarten 54 7.9           State of residence 2,484 87.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 324 47.2           Different state 287 10.1
High school (grades 9-12) 201 29.3       Born outside United States 12 0.4
College or graduate school 92 13.4   Foreign born 63 2.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 23 0.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 35 1.2
  Population 25 years and over 1,954 100.0       Not a citizen 28 1.0
Less than 9th grade 39 2.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 221 11.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 771 39.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 63 100.0
Some college, no degree 342 17.5   Europe 41 65.1
Associate degree 202 10.3   Asia 18 28.6
Bachelor's degree 178 9.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 201 10.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 86.7 (X)   Northern America 4 6.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 19.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,693 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,282 100.0   English only 2,569 95.4
Never married 590 25.9   Language other than English 124 4.6
Now married, except separated 1,300 57.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.1
Separated 66 2.9   Spanish 22 0.8
Widowed 149 6.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.1
 Female 129 5.7   Other Indo-European languages 98 3.6
Divorced 177 7.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 60 2.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 4 0.1
                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 2,846 100.0
           under 18 years 25 100.0     Total ancestries reported 3,312 116.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 5 20.0   Arab 4 0.1
        Czech¹ 24 0.8
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 4 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,122 100.0   Dutch 266 9.3
Civilian veterans 286 13.5   English 291 10.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 173 6.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 82 2.9
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 701 24.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 647 100.0   Greek 4 0.1
With a disability 68 10.5   Hungarian 19 0.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,701 100.0   Irish¹ 516 18.1
With a disability 376 22.1   Italian 301 10.6
 Percent employed 63.6 (X)   Lithuanian 4 0.1
No disability 1,325 77.9   Norwegian 18 0.6
 Percent employed 77.4 (X)   Polish 172 6.0
     Population 65 years and over 342 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 128 37.4   Russian 17 0.6
        Scotch-Irish 36 1.3
        Scottish 54 1.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 8 0.3
  Population 5 years and over 2,693 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,127 79.0   Swedish 18 0.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 558 20.7   Swiss 4 0.1
 Same county 346 12.8   Ukrainian 20 0.7
 Different county 212 7.9   United States or American 264 9.3
  Same state 187 6.9   Welsh 51 1.8
  Different state 25 0.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 8 0.3   Other ancestries 261 9.2
 
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.