DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Malta 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 13,005 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,124 100.0   Native 12,588 96.8
Nursery school, preschool 344 11.0       Born in United States 12,514 96.2
Kindergarten 129 4.1           State of residence 9,943 76.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,554 49.7           Different state 2,571 19.8
High school (grades 9-12) 604 19.3       Born outside United States 74 0.6
College or graduate school 493 15.8   Foreign born 417 3.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 165 1.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 221 1.7
  Population 25 years and over 8,877 100.0       Not a citizen 196 1.5
Less than 9th grade 112 1.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 452 5.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,418 27.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 417 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,670 18.8   Europe 153 36.7
Associate degree 1,141 12.9   Asia 143 34.3
Bachelor's degree 2,002 22.6   Africa 28 6.7
Graduate or professional degree 1,082 12.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 50 12.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 93.6 (X)   Northern America 43 10.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 34.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 12,020 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 10,147 100.0   English only 11,371 94.6
Never married 2,303 22.7   Language other than English 649 5.4
Now married, except separated 6,268 61.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 178 1.5
Separated 312 3.1   Spanish 95 0.8
Widowed 417 4.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 36 0.3
 Female 334 3.3   Other Indo-European languages 431 3.6
Divorced 847 8.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 82 0.7
 Female 503 5.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 75 0.6
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 45 0.4
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 13,005 100.0
           under 18 years 132 100.0     Total ancestries reported 16,877 129.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 89 67.4   Arab 62 0.5
        Czech¹ 165 1.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 51 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 9,517 100.0   Dutch 524 4.0
Civilian veterans 1,266 13.3   English 1,965 15.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,200 9.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 481 3.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,322 17.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,642 100.0   Greek 152 1.2
With a disability 168 6.4   Hungarian 74 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 8,084 100.0   Irish¹ 3,426 26.3
With a disability 921 11.4   Italian 2,267 17.4
 Percent employed 77.2 (X)   Lithuanian 52 0.4
No disability 7,163 88.6   Norwegian 129 1.0
 Percent employed 87.0 (X)   Polish 1,205 9.3
     Population 65 years and over 1,126 100.0   Portuguese 68 0.5
With a disability 373 33.1   Russian 144 1.1
        Scotch-Irish 266 2.0
        Scottish 359 2.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 85 0.7
  Population 5 years and over 12,020 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 6,423 53.4   Swedish 104 0.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 5,469 45.5   Swiss 53 0.4
 Same county 2,873 23.9   Ukrainian 109 0.8
 Different county 2,596 21.6   United States or American 439 3.4
  Same state 1,612 13.4   Welsh 78 0.6
  Different state 984 8.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 15 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 128 1.1   Other ancestries 1,082 8.3
 
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.