DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Brunswick 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 11,719 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,116 100.0   Native 11,319 96.6
Nursery school, preschool 243 7.8       Born in United States 11,240 95.9
Kindergarten 166 5.3           State of residence 9,967 85.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,386 44.5           Different state 1,273 10.9
High school (grades 9-12) 684 22.0       Born outside United States 79 0.7
College or graduate school 637 20.4   Foreign born 400 3.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 107 0.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 257 2.2
  Population 25 years and over 8,174 100.0       Not a citizen 143 1.2
Less than 9th grade 250 3.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 451 5.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,220 27.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 400 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,460 17.9   Europe 124 31.0
Associate degree 848 10.4   Asia 162 40.5
Bachelor's degree 1,564 19.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 1,381 16.9   Oceania 7 1.8
        Latin America 42 10.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 91.4 (X)   Northern America 65 16.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 36.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 11,081 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 9,426 100.0   English only 10,519 94.9
Never married 2,255 23.9   Language other than English 562 5.1
Now married, except separated 5,794 61.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 129 1.2
Separated 154 1.6   Spanish 197 1.8
Widowed 599 6.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 48 0.4
 Female 458 4.9   Other Indo-European languages 270 2.4
Divorced 624 6.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 53 0.5
 Female 414 4.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 80 0.7
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 20 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 11,719 100.0
           under 18 years 140 100.0     Total ancestries reported 14,997 128.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 35 25.0   Arab 23 0.2
        Czech¹ 36 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 216 1.8
          Civilian population 18 years and over 8,893 100.0   Dutch 526 4.5
Civilian veterans 1,253 14.1   English 1,347 11.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,248 10.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 238 2.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,239 19.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,500 100.0   Greek 42 0.4
With a disability 164 6.6   Hungarian 27 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 6,830 100.0   Irish¹ 3,757 32.1
With a disability 839 12.3   Italian 1,722 14.7
 Percent employed 74.7 (X)   Lithuanian 16 0.1
No disability 5,991 87.7   Norwegian 84 0.7
 Percent employed 83.1 (X)   Polish 713 6.1
     Population 65 years and over 1,741 100.0   Portuguese 8 0.1
With a disability 431 24.8   Russian 169 1.4
        Scotch-Irish 208 1.8
        Scottish 258 2.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 15 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 11,081 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 8,082 72.9   Swedish 77 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,920 26.4   Swiss 21 0.2
 Same county 1,930 17.4   Ukrainian 242 2.1
 Different county 990 8.9   United States or American 524 4.5
  Same state 695 6.3   Welsh 114 1.0
  Different state 295 2.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 79 0.7   Other ancestries 1,127 9.6
 
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.