DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Westerlo 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 3,466 100.0
      enrolled in school 905 100.0   Native 3,402 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 65 7.2       Born in United States 3,385 97.7
Kindergarten 73 8.1           State of residence 2,960 85.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 432 47.7           Different state 425 12.3
High school (grades 9-12) 210 23.2       Born outside United States 17 0.5
College or graduate school 125 13.8   Foreign born 64 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 47 1.4
  Population 25 years and over 2,394 100.0       Not a citizen 17 0.5
Less than 9th grade 99 4.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 234 9.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 949 39.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 64 100.0
Some college, no degree 444 18.5   Europe 51 79.7
Associate degree 178 7.4   Asia 7 10.9
Bachelor's degree 255 10.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 235 9.8   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 6 9.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 86.1 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 20.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,259 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,701 100.0   English only 3,137 96.3
Never married 542 20.1   Language other than English 122 3.7
Now married, except separated 1,648 61.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 46 1.4
Separated 96 3.6   Spanish 21 0.6
Widowed 278 10.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 15 0.5
 Female 228 8.4   Other Indo-European languages 93 2.9
Divorced 137 5.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 23 0.7
 Female 77 2.9   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 3,466 100.0
           under 18 years 79 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,142 119.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 15 19.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 32 0.9
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,546 100.0   Dutch 346 10.0
Civilian veterans 360 14.1   English 352 10.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 158 4.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 86 2.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 804 23.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 781 100.0   Greek 17 0.5
With a disability 70 9.0   Hungarian 45 1.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,041 100.0   Irish¹ 735 21.2
With a disability 383 18.8   Italian 551 15.9
 Percent employed 51.2 (X)   Lithuanian 35 1.0
No disability 1,658 81.2   Norwegian 59 1.7
 Percent employed 76.5 (X)   Polish 106 3.1
     Population 65 years and over 437 100.0   Portuguese 6 0.2
With a disability 262 60.0   Russian 4 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 39 1.1
        Scottish 146 4.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 39 1.1
  Population 5 years and over 3,259 100.0   Subsaharan African 5 0.1
Same house in 1995 2,310 70.9   Swedish 36 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 949 29.1   Swiss 3 0.1
 Same county 369 11.3   Ukrainian 33 1.0
 Different county 580 17.8   United States or American 296 8.5
  Same state 432 13.3   Welsh 6 0.2
  Different state 148 4.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 203 5.9
 
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.