DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Homer 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 6,363 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,660 100.0   Native 6,247 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 73 4.4       Born in United States 6,202 97.5
Kindergarten 46 2.8           State of residence 5,419 85.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 883 53.2           Different state 783 12.3
High school (grades 9-12) 415 25.0       Born outside United States 45 0.7
College or graduate school 243 14.6   Foreign born 116 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 14 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 86 1.4
  Population 25 years and over 4,237 100.0       Not a citizen 30 0.5
Less than 9th grade 120 2.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 313 7.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,567 37.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 116 100.0
Some college, no degree 658 15.5   Europe 53 45.7
Associate degree 462 10.9   Asia 7 6.0
Bachelor's degree 644 15.2   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 473 11.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 31 26.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 89.8 (X)   Northern America 25 21.6
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 26.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 6,010 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,997 100.0   English only 5,840 97.2
Never married 1,172 23.5   Language other than English 170 2.7
Now married, except separated 2,846 57.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 21 0.3
Separated 168 3.4   Spanish 67 1.1
Widowed 376 7.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.1
 Female 317 6.3   Other Indo-European languages 89 1.5
Divorced 435 8.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 13 0.2
 Female 247 4.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 7 0.1
                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 6,363 100.0
           under 18 years 64 100.0     Total ancestries reported 7,774 122.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 27 42.2   Arab 26 0.4
        Czech¹ 21 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 31 0.5
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,667 100.0   Dutch 409 6.4
Civilian veterans 678 14.5   English 1,698 26.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 317 5.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 117 1.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,159 18.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,582 100.0   Greek 6 0.1
With a disability 168 10.6   Hungarian 46 0.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,573 100.0   Irish¹ 1,210 19.0
With a disability 488 13.7   Italian 585 9.2
 Percent employed 62.3 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 3,085 86.3   Norwegian 54 0.8
 Percent employed 86.3 (X)   Polish 196 3.1
     Population 65 years and over 855 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 292 34.2   Russian 13 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 99 1.6
        Scottish 346 5.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 16 0.3
  Population 5 years and over 6,010 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 3,878 64.5   Swedish 115 1.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,132 35.5   Swiss 32 0.5
 Same county 1,447 24.1   Ukrainian 19 0.3
 Different county 685 11.4   United States or American 437 6.9
  Same state 459 7.6   Welsh 90 1.4
  Different state 226 3.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 16 0.3
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 716 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.