DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Providence 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 1,841 100.0
      enrolled in school 472 100.0   Native 1,806 98.1
Nursery school, preschool 22 4.7       Born in United States 1,801 97.8
Kindergarten 26 5.5           State of residence 1,532 83.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 247 52.3           Different state 269 14.6
High school (grades 9-12) 95 20.1       Born outside United States 5 0.3
College or graduate school 82 17.4   Foreign born 35 1.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 14 0.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 22 1.2
  Population 25 years and over 1,247 100.0       Not a citizen 13 0.7
Less than 9th grade 30 2.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 175 14.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 531 42.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 35 100.0
Some college, no degree 218 17.5   Europe 12 34.3
Associate degree 143 11.5   Asia 13 37.1
Bachelor's degree 107 8.6   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 43 3.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 6 17.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 83.6 (X)   Northern America 4 11.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,715 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,424 100.0   English only 1,665 97.1
Never married 291 20.4   Language other than English 50 2.9
Now married, except separated 920 64.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.5
Separated 47 3.3   Spanish 25 1.5
Widowed 49 3.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 37 2.6   Other Indo-European languages 16 0.9
Divorced 117 8.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 7 0.4
 Female 59 4.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 1,841 100.0
           under 18 years 24 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,013 109.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 5 20.8   Arab 17 0.9
        Czech¹ 10 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 4 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,334 100.0   Dutch 107 5.8
Civilian veterans 200 15.0   English 225 12.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 135 7.3
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 47 2.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 342 18.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 420 100.0   Greek 18 1.0
With a disability 36 8.6   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,119 100.0   Irish¹ 359 19.5
With a disability 168 15.0   Italian 149 8.1
 Percent employed 48.2 (X)   Lithuanian 16 0.9
No disability 951 85.0   Norwegian 18 1.0
 Percent employed 78.4 (X)   Polish 145 7.9
     Population 65 years and over 166 100.0   Portuguese 8 0.4
With a disability 73 44.0   Russian 11 0.6
        Scotch-Irish 26 1.4
        Scottish 41 2.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 6 0.3
  Population 5 years and over 1,715 100.0   Subsaharan African 2 0.1
Same house in 1995 1,218 71.0   Swedish 13 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 494 28.8   Swiss 6 0.3
 Same county 243 14.2   Ukrainian 26 1.4
 Different county 251 14.6   United States or American 105 5.7
  Same state 142 8.3   Welsh 11 0.6
  Different state 109 6.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 3 0.2   Other ancestries 166 9.0
 
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.