DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Milton 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 17,115 100.0
      enrolled in school 4,477 100.0   Native 16,740 97.8
Nursery school, preschool 442 9.9       Born in United States 16,550 96.7
Kindergarten 225 5.0           State of residence 13,561 79.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,191 48.9           Different state 2,989 17.5
High school (grades 9-12) 889 19.9       Born outside United States 190 1.1
College or graduate school 730 16.3   Foreign born 375 2.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 75 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 260 1.5
  Population 25 years and over 11,003 100.0       Not a citizen 115 0.7
Less than 9th grade 352 3.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,205 11.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,634 33.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 375 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,141 19.5   Europe 172 45.9
Associate degree 1,133 10.3   Asia 96 25.6
Bachelor's degree 1,679 15.3   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 859 7.8   Oceania 17 4.5
        Latin America 24 6.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 85.8 (X)   Northern America 66 17.6
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 23.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 15,675 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 13,055 100.0   English only 15,124 96.5
Never married 3,354 25.7   Language other than English 551 3.5
Now married, except separated 7,707 59.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 62 0.4
Separated 329 2.5   Spanish 155 1.0
Widowed 562 4.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 34 0.2
 Female 434 3.3   Other Indo-European languages 311 2.0
Divorced 1,103 8.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 16 0.1
 Female 597 4.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 61 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 12 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 17,115 100.0
           under 18 years 165 100.0     Total ancestries reported 22,428 131.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 51 30.9   Arab 86 0.5
        Czech¹ 251 1.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 51 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 12,166 100.0   Dutch 543 3.2
Civilian veterans 1,712 14.1   English 2,671 15.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,803 10.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 646 3.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,435 20.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 3,793 100.0   Greek 100 0.6
With a disability 276 7.3   Hungarian 131 0.8
     Population 21 to 64 years 10,068 100.0   Irish¹ 4,394 25.7
With a disability 1,429 14.2   Italian 2,808 16.4
 Percent employed 53.5 (X)   Lithuanian 84 0.5
No disability 8,639 85.8   Norwegian 185 1.1
 Percent employed 82.4 (X)   Polish 1,165 6.8
     Population 65 years and over 1,436 100.0   Portuguese 41 0.2
With a disability 616 42.9   Russian 112 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 265 1.5
        Scottish 379 2.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 78 0.5
  Population 5 years and over 15,675 100.0   Subsaharan African 5 0.0
Same house in 1995 8,172 52.1   Swedish 135 0.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 7,412 47.3   Swiss 97 0.6
 Same county 4,310 27.5   Ukrainian 50 0.3
 Different county 3,102 19.8   United States or American 691 4.0
  Same state 1,897 12.1   Welsh 221 1.3
  Different state 1,205 7.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 24 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 91 0.6   Other ancestries 1,977 11.6
 
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.