DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Grafton 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 1,987 100.0
      enrolled in school 501 100.0   Native 1,954 98.3
Nursery school, preschool 27 5.4       Born in United States 1,949 98.1
Kindergarten 34 6.8           State of residence 1,644 82.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 225 44.9           Different state 305 15.3
High school (grades 9-12) 132 26.3       Born outside United States 5 0.3
College or graduate school 83 16.6   Foreign born 33 1.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 12 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 23 1.2
  Population 25 years and over 1,320 100.0       Not a citizen 10 0.5
Less than 9th grade 59 4.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 136 10.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 454 34.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 33 100.0
Some college, no degree 264 20.0   Europe 13 39.4
Associate degree 162 12.3   Asia 8 24.2
Bachelor's degree 131 9.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 114 8.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 85.2 (X)   Northern America 12 36.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 18.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,864 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,583 100.0   English only 1,797 96.4
Never married 371 23.4   Language other than English 67 3.6
Now married, except separated 971 61.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 34 1.8
Separated 38 2.4   Spanish 29 1.6
Widowed 74 4.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 17 0.9
 Female 62 3.9   Other Indo-European languages 32 1.7
Divorced 129 8.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 14 0.8
 Female 61 3.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 4 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 1,987 100.0
           under 18 years 33 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,462 123.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 15 45.5   Arab 7 0.4
        Czech¹ 10 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 31 1.6
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,489 100.0   Dutch 67 3.4
Civilian veterans 247 16.6   English 260 13.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 210 10.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 84 4.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 358 18.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 449 100.0   Greek 3 0.2
With a disability 36 8.0   Hungarian 12 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,229 100.0   Irish¹ 500 25.2
With a disability 224 18.2   Italian 221 11.1
 Percent employed 57.1 (X)   Lithuanian 12 0.6
No disability 1,005 81.8   Norwegian 9 0.5
 Percent employed 80.7 (X)   Polish 81 4.1
     Population 65 years and over 186 100.0   Portuguese 5 0.3
With a disability 71 38.2   Russian 17 0.9
        Scotch-Irish 36 1.8
        Scottish 76 3.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 4 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 1,864 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,407 75.5   Swedish 23 1.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 443 23.8   Swiss 18 0.9
 Same county 294 15.8   Ukrainian 34 1.7
 Different county 149 8.0   United States or American 228 11.5
  Same state 122 6.5   Welsh 15 0.8
  Different state 27 1.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 14 0.8   Other ancestries 141 7.1
 
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.