DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Bethlehem 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 31,304 100.0
      enrolled in school 8,677 100.0   Native 29,796 95.2
Nursery school, preschool 744 8.6       Born in United States 29,666 94.8
Kindergarten 363 4.2           State of residence 24,079 76.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 4,068 46.9           Different state 5,587 17.8
High school (grades 9-12) 2,057 23.7       Born outside United States 130 0.4
College or graduate school 1,445 16.7   Foreign born 1,508 4.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 409 1.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,116 3.6
  Population 25 years and over 21,182 100.0       Not a citizen 392 1.3
Less than 9th grade 462 2.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,002 4.7   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,857 18.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,508 100.0
Some college, no degree 3,171 15.0   Europe 688 45.6
Associate degree 2,092 9.9   Asia 455 30.2
Bachelor's degree 4,810 22.7   Africa 27 1.8
Graduate or professional degree 5,788 27.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 184 12.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 93.1 (X)   Northern America 154 10.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 50.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 29,296 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 24,301 100.0   English only 27,730 94.7
Never married 4,810 19.8   Language other than English 1,566 5.3
Now married, except separated 15,606 64.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 559 1.9
Separated 429 1.8   Spanish 407 1.4
Widowed 1,707 7.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 108 0.4
 Female 1,371 5.6   Other Indo-European languages 907 3.1
Divorced 1,749 7.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 308 1.1
 Female 1,166 4.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 120 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 81 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 31,304 100.0
           under 18 years 253 100.0     Total ancestries reported 39,431 126.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 116 45.8   Arab 207 0.7
        Czech¹ 174 0.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 107 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 22,688 100.0   Dutch 1,407 4.5
Civilian veterans 2,782 12.3   English 4,284 13.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,577 5.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 530 1.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 6,718 21.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 7,352 100.0   Greek 387 1.2
With a disability 471 6.4   Hungarian 229 0.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 17,372 100.0   Irish¹ 7,603 24.3
With a disability 2,390 13.8   Italian 5,005 16.0
 Percent employed 73.9 (X)   Lithuanian 183 0.6
No disability 14,982 86.2   Norwegian 256 0.8
 Percent employed 84.5 (X)   Polish 1,935 6.2
     Population 65 years and over 4,289 100.0   Portuguese 59 0.2
With a disability 1,238 28.9   Russian 1,056 3.4
        Scotch-Irish 413 1.3
        Scottish 739 2.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 105 0.3
  Population 5 years and over 29,296 100.0   Subsaharan African 16 0.1
Same house in 1995 18,520 63.2   Swedish 417 1.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 10,494 35.8   Swiss 97 0.3
 Same county 6,776 23.1   Ukrainian 171 0.5
 Different county 3,718 12.7   United States or American 1,295 4.1
  Same state 2,555 8.7   Welsh 415 1.3
  Different state 1,163 4.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 48 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995 282 1.0   Other ancestries 3,998 12.8
 
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.