DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Freetown 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 815 100.0
      enrolled in school 231 100.0   Native 804 98.7
Nursery school, preschool 7 3.0       Born in United States 803 98.5
Kindergarten 13 5.6           State of residence 691 84.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 125 54.1           Different state 112 13.7
High school (grades 9-12) 67 29.0       Born outside United States 1 0.1
College or graduate school 19 8.2   Foreign born 11 1.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 7 0.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 9 1.1
  Population 25 years and over 519 100.0       Not a citizen 2 0.2
Less than 9th grade 35 6.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 85 16.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 218 42.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 11 100.0
Some college, no degree 69 13.3   Europe 4 36.4
Associate degree 47 9.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 44 8.5   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 21 4.0   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 5 45.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 76.9 (X)   Northern America 2 18.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 765 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 619 100.0   English only 739 96.6
Never married 136 22.0   Language other than English 26 3.4
Now married, except separated 376 60.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 11 1.4
Separated 20 3.2   Spanish 17 2.2
Widowed 23 3.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 6 0.8
 Female 19 3.1   Other Indo-European languages 9 1.2
Divorced 64 10.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.7
 Female 31 5.0   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 815 100.0
           under 18 years 26 100.0     Total ancestries reported 807 99.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 5 19.2   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 3 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 567 100.0   Dutch 30 3.7
Civilian veterans 95 16.8   English 180 22.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 58 7.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 3 0.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 135 16.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 221 100.0   Greek 10 1.2
With a disability 28 12.7   Hungarian 1 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 466 100.0   Irish¹ 117 14.4
With a disability 93 20.0   Italian 40 4.9
 Percent employed 48.4 (X)   Lithuanian 1 0.1
No disability 373 80.0   Norwegian 21 2.6
 Percent employed 78.3 (X)   Polish 13 1.6
     Population 65 years and over 78 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 31 39.7   Russian 6 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 6 0.7
        Scottish 10 1.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 1 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 765 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 516 67.5   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 249 32.5   Swiss 7 0.9
 Same county 147 19.2   Ukrainian 8 1.0
 Different county 102 13.3   United States or American 61 7.5
  Same state 77 10.1   Welsh 4 0.5
  Different state 25 3.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 92 11.3
 
Date: May 22, 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.