DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sand Lake 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 7,987 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,226 100.0   Native 7,882 98.7
Nursery school, preschool 171 7.7       Born in United States 7,842 98.2
Kindergarten 109 4.9           State of residence 6,924 86.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,068 48.0           Different state 918 11.5
High school (grades 9-12) 517 23.2       Born outside United States 40 0.5
College or graduate school 361 16.2   Foreign born 105 1.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 49 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 74 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 5,316 100.0       Not a citizen 31 0.4
Less than 9th grade 109 2.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 291 5.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,637 30.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 105 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,212 22.8   Europe 41 39.0
Associate degree 610 11.5   Asia 64 61.0
Bachelor's degree 769 14.5   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 688 12.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 92.5 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 27.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 7,516 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,205 100.0   English only 7,332 97.6
Never married 1,373 22.1   Language other than English 184 2.4
Now married, except separated 3,849 62.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 18 0.2
Separated 180 2.9   Spanish 76 1.0
Widowed 304 4.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.1
 Female 254 4.1   Other Indo-European languages 79 1.1
Divorced 499 8.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.1
 Female 251 4.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 11 0.1
                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 7,987 100.0
           under 18 years 82 100.0     Total ancestries reported 9,723 121.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 29 35.4   Arab 29 0.4
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 7 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 5,809 100.0   Dutch 363 4.5
Civilian veterans 853 14.7   English 1,163 14.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 712 8.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 212 2.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,009 25.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,926 100.0   Greek 37 0.5
With a disability 155 8.0   Hungarian 43 0.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,730 100.0   Irish¹ 1,808 22.6
With a disability 681 14.4   Italian 1,104 13.8
 Percent employed 71.4 (X)   Lithuanian 43 0.5
No disability 4,049 85.6   Norwegian 8 0.1
 Percent employed 86.9 (X)   Polish 488 6.1
     Population 65 years and over 839 100.0   Portuguese 6 0.1
With a disability 303 36.1   Russian 124 1.6
        Scotch-Irish 113 1.4
        Scottish 162 2.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 12 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 7,516 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 5,490 73.0   Swedish 77 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,017 26.8   Swiss 7 0.1
 Same county 1,253 16.7   Ukrainian 70 0.9
 Different county 764 10.2   United States or American 460 5.8
  Same state 699 9.3   Welsh 104 1.3
  Different state 65 0.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 27 0.3
Elsewhere in 1995 9 0.1   Other ancestries 535 6.7
 
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.