DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Berlin 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 1,901 100.0
      enrolled in school 499 100.0   Native 1,864 98.1
Nursery school, preschool 28 5.6       Born in United States 1,855 97.6
Kindergarten 24 4.8           State of residence 1,203 63.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 283 56.7           Different state 652 34.3
High school (grades 9-12) 98 19.6       Born outside United States 9 0.5
College or graduate school 66 13.2   Foreign born 37 1.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 9 0.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 24 1.3
  Population 25 years and over 1,246 100.0       Not a citizen 13 0.7
Less than 9th grade 96 7.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 184 14.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 494 39.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 37 100.0
Some college, no degree 188 15.1   Europe 29 78.4
Associate degree 79 6.3   Asia 3 8.1
Bachelor's degree 113 9.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 92 7.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 5 13.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 77.5 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 16.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,779 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,454 100.0   English only 1,712 96.2
Never married 329 22.6   Language other than English 67 3.8
Now married, except separated 818 56.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 14 0.8
Separated 53 3.6   Spanish 29 1.6
Widowed 127 8.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.4
 Female 100 6.9   Other Indo-European languages 27 1.5
Divorced 127 8.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 3 0.2
 Female 58 4.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 3 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 3 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 1,901 100.0
           under 18 years 33 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,122 111.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 23 69.7   Arab 6 0.3
        Czech¹ 8 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 14 0.7
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,368 100.0   Dutch 78 4.1
Civilian veterans 200 14.6   English 300 15.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 150 7.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 61 3.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 450 23.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 463 100.0   Greek 6 0.3
With a disability 37 8.0   Hungarian 5 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,055 100.0   Irish¹ 379 19.9
With a disability 216 20.5   Italian 196 10.3
 Percent employed 52.8 (X)   Lithuanian 9 0.5
No disability 839 79.5   Norwegian 25 1.3
 Percent employed 78.9 (X)   Polish 79 4.2
     Population 65 years and over 261 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 112 42.9   Russian 17 0.9
        Scotch-Irish 9 0.5
        Scottish 48 2.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,779 100.0   Subsaharan African 3 0.2
Same house in 1995 1,206 67.8   Swedish 4 0.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 568 31.9   Swiss 5 0.3
 Same county 404 22.7   Ukrainian 9 0.5
 Different county 164 9.2   United States or American 98 5.2
  Same state 106 6.0   Welsh 4 0.2
  Different state 58 3.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 5 0.3   Other ancestries 159 8.4
 
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.