DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Princetown 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 2,132 100.0
      enrolled in school 582 100.0   Native 2,085 97.8
Nursery school, preschool 22 3.8       Born in United States 2,080 97.6
Kindergarten 25 4.3           State of residence 1,844 86.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 258 44.3           Different state 236 11.1
High school (grades 9-12) 180 30.9       Born outside United States 5 0.2
College or graduate school 97 16.7   Foreign born 47 2.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 36 1.7
  Population 25 years and over 1,463 100.0       Not a citizen 11 0.5
Less than 9th grade 34 2.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 128 8.7   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 512 35.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 47 100.0
Some college, no degree 252 17.2   Europe 26 55.3
Associate degree 187 12.8   Asia 4 8.5
Bachelor's degree 192 13.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 158 10.8   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 7 14.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 88.9 (X)   Northern America 10 21.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 23.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,046 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,723 100.0   English only 1,950 95.3
Never married 392 22.8   Language other than English 96 4.7
Now married, except separated 1,085 63.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 32 1.6
Separated 20 1.2   Spanish 40 2.0
Widowed 92 5.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 19 0.9
 Female 76 4.4   Other Indo-European languages 56 2.7
Divorced 134 7.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 13 0.6
 Female 61 3.5   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                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 2,132 100.0
           under 18 years 18 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,697 126.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 2 0.1
        Czech¹ 17 0.8
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 17 0.8
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,589 100.0   Dutch 184 8.6
Civilian veterans 202 12.7   English 289 13.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 201 9.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 35 1.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 413 19.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 526 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 28 5.3   Hungarian 12 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,272 100.0   Irish¹ 382 17.9
With a disability 166 13.1   Italian 486 22.8
 Percent employed 59.6 (X)   Lithuanian 21 1.0
No disability 1,106 86.9   Norwegian 13 0.6
 Percent employed 80.9 (X)   Polish 193 9.1
     Population 65 years and over 248 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 107 43.1   Russian 5 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 35 1.6
        Scottish 68 3.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 18 0.8
  Population 5 years and over 2,046 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,579 77.2   Swedish 23 1.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 462 22.6   Swiss 4 0.2
 Same county 283 13.8   Ukrainian 4 0.2
 Different county 179 8.7   United States or American 100 4.7
  Same state 109 5.3   Welsh 17 0.8
  Different state 70 3.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 2 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 5 0.2   Other ancestries 156 7.3
 
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.