DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Wilton 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 12,511 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,349 100.0   Native 12,150 97.1
Nursery school, preschool 207 6.2       Born in United States 12,013 96.0
Kindergarten 270 8.1           State of residence 9,611 76.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,556 46.5           Different state 2,402 19.2
High school (grades 9-12) 871 26.0       Born outside United States 137 1.1
College or graduate school 445 13.3   Foreign born 361 2.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 69 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 278 2.2
  Population 25 years and over 8,116 100.0       Not a citizen 83 0.7
Less than 9th grade 253 3.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 488 6.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,530 31.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 361 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,347 16.6   Europe 150 41.6
Associate degree 795 9.8   Asia 117 32.4
Bachelor's degree 1,566 19.3   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 1,137 14.0   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 51 14.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 90.9 (X)   Northern America 43 11.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 33.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 11,602 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 9,513 100.0   English only 11,096 95.6
Never married 2,015 21.2   Language other than English 506 4.4
Now married, except separated 6,051 63.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 79 0.7
Separated 137 1.4   Spanish 158 1.4
Widowed 455 4.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 24 0.2
 Female 350 3.7   Other Indo-European languages 306 2.6
Divorced 855 9.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 45 0.4
 Female 459 4.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 32 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 10 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 12,511 100.0
           under 18 years 183 100.0     Total ancestries reported 16,093 128.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 108 59.0   Arab 8 0.1
        Czech¹ 64 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 52 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 8,819 100.0   Dutch 425 3.4
Civilian veterans 1,379 15.6   English 1,830 14.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,477 11.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 423 3.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,939 15.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 3,092 100.0   Greek 26 0.2
With a disability 242 7.8   Hungarian 91 0.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 7,474 100.0   Irish¹ 2,997 24.0
With a disability 1,099 14.7   Italian 1,844 14.7
 Percent employed 53.5 (X)   Lithuanian 84 0.7
No disability 6,375 85.3   Norwegian 110 0.9
 Percent employed 81.3 (X)   Polish 889 7.1
     Population 65 years and over 982 100.0   Portuguese 18 0.1
With a disability 467 47.6   Russian 286 2.3
        Scotch-Irish 143 1.1
        Scottish 354 2.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 108 0.9
  Population 5 years and over 11,602 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 6,978 60.1   Swedish 150 1.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 4,574 39.4   Swiss 21 0.2
 Same county 2,712 23.4   Ukrainian 70 0.6
 Different county 1,862 16.0   United States or American 1,028 8.2
  Same state 804 6.9   Welsh 188 1.5
  Different state 1,058 9.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 46 0.4
Elsewhere in 1995 50 0.4   Other ancestries 1,422 11.4
 
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.