DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Petersburgh 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 1,563 100.0
      enrolled in school 357 100.0   Native 1,519 97.2
Nursery school, preschool 26 7.3       Born in United States 1,506 96.4
Kindergarten 25 7.0           State of residence 822 52.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 179 50.1           Different state 684 43.8
High school (grades 9-12) 88 24.6       Born outside United States 13 0.8
College or graduate school 39 10.9   Foreign born 44 2.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 16 1.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 16 1.0
  Population 25 years and over 1,044 100.0       Not a citizen 28 1.8
Less than 9th grade 68 6.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 135 12.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 359 34.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 44 100.0
Some college, no degree 191 18.3   Europe 28 63.6
Associate degree 65 6.2   Asia 10 22.7
Bachelor's degree 117 11.2   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 109 10.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 4 9.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.6 (X)   Northern America 2 4.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 21.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,458 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,223 100.0   English only 1,417 97.2
Never married 244 20.0   Language other than English 41 2.8
Now married, except separated 760 62.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 16 1.1
Separated 27 2.2   Spanish 8 0.5
Widowed 86 7.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.1
 Female 67 5.5   Other Indo-European languages 25 1.7
Divorced 106 8.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.6
 Female 42 3.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 5 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 1,563 100.0
           under 18 years 31 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,512 96.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 13 41.9   Arab 2 0.1
        Czech¹ 9 0.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 2 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,152 100.0   Dutch 44 2.8
Civilian veterans 183 15.9   English 215 13.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 168 10.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 46 2.9
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 210 13.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 367 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 16 4.4   Hungarian 10 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 893 100.0   Irish¹ 242 15.5
With a disability 168 18.8   Italian 100 6.4
 Percent employed 45.2 (X)   Lithuanian 8 0.5
No disability 725 81.2   Norwegian 7 0.4
 Percent employed 80.1 (X)   Polish 56 3.6
     Population 65 years and over 195 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 67 34.4   Russian 21 1.3
        Scotch-Irish 13 0.8
        Scottish 42 2.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,458 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,042 71.5   Swedish 8 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 410 28.1   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 241 16.5   Ukrainian 2 0.1
 Different county 169 11.6   United States or American 150 9.6
  Same state 109 7.5   Welsh 9 0.6
  Different state 60 4.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 2 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 6 0.4   Other ancestries 146 9.3
 
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.