DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: New Scotland 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 8,619 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,217 100.0   Native 8,403 97.5
Nursery school, preschool 143 6.5       Born in United States 8,327 96.6
Kindergarten 126 5.7           State of residence 7,194 83.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,051 47.4           Different state 1,133 13.1
High school (grades 9-12) 521 23.5       Born outside United States 76 0.9
College or graduate school 376 17.0   Foreign born 216 2.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 31 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 173 2.0
  Population 25 years and over 5,982 100.0       Not a citizen 43 0.5
Less than 9th grade 199 3.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 318 5.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,737 29.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 216 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,021 17.1   Europe 123 56.9
Associate degree 640 10.7   Asia 53 24.5
Bachelor's degree 1,127 18.8   Africa 6 2.8
Graduate or professional degree 940 15.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 19 8.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 91.4 (X)   Northern America 15 6.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 34.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 8,126 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,843 100.0   English only 7,818 96.2
Never married 1,428 20.9   Language other than English 308 3.8
Now married, except separated 4,365 63.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 92 1.1
Separated 187 2.7   Spanish 93 1.1
Widowed 362 5.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 28 0.3
 Female 294 4.3   Other Indo-European languages 181 2.2
Divorced 501 7.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 53 0.7
 Female 339 5.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 21 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 8,619 100.0
           under 18 years 74 100.0     Total ancestries reported 11,009 127.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 14 18.9   Arab 4 0.0
        Czech¹ 40 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 27 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,454 100.0   Dutch 700 8.1
Civilian veterans 911 14.1   English 1,425 16.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 560 6.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 114 1.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,187 25.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,929 100.0   Greek 34 0.4
With a disability 140 7.3   Hungarian 32 0.4
     Population 21 to 64 years 5,079 100.0   Irish¹ 2,193 25.4
With a disability 557 11.0   Italian 1,001 11.6
 Percent employed 57.3 (X)   Lithuanian 52 0.6
No disability 4,522 89.0   Norwegian 99 1.1
 Percent employed 84.1 (X)   Polish 589 6.8
     Population 65 years and over 1,118 100.0   Portuguese 15 0.2
With a disability 406 36.3   Russian 119 1.4
        Scotch-Irish 82 1.0
        Scottish 351 4.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 8,126 100.0   Subsaharan African 17 0.2
Same house in 1995 5,696 70.1   Swedish 55 0.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,417 29.7   Swiss 13 0.2
 Same county 1,614 19.9   Ukrainian 58 0.7
 Different county 803 9.9   United States or American 380 4.4
  Same state 635 7.8   Welsh 155 1.8
  Different state 168 2.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 8 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 13 0.2   Other ancestries 699 8.1
 
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.