DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Marathon 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 2,163 100.0
      enrolled in school 606 100.0   Native 2,131 98.5
Nursery school, preschool 36 5.9       Born in United States 2,101 97.1
Kindergarten 34 5.6           State of residence 1,863 86.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 314 51.8           Different state 238 11.0
High school (grades 9-12) 155 25.6       Born outside United States 30 1.4
College or graduate school 67 11.1   Foreign born 32 1.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 9 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 24 1.1
  Population 25 years and over 1,358 100.0       Not a citizen 8 0.4
Less than 9th grade 57 4.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 154 11.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 597 44.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 32 100.0
Some college, no degree 227 16.7   Europe 21 65.6
Associate degree 154 11.3   Asia 1 3.1
Bachelor's degree 97 7.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 72 5.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 84.5 (X)   Northern America 10 31.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,007 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,623 100.0   English only 1,942 96.8
Never married 355 21.9   Language other than English 65 3.2
Now married, except separated 945 58.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.4
Separated 51 3.1   Spanish 36 1.8
Widowed 117 7.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.2
 Female 91 5.6   Other Indo-European languages 29 1.4
Divorced 155 9.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.2
 Female 89 5.5   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 2,163 100.0
           under 18 years 29 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,047 94.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 12 41.4   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 2 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 15 0.7
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,501 100.0   Dutch 146 6.7
Civilian veterans 205 13.7   English 459 21.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 73 3.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 37 1.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 376 17.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 577 100.0   Greek 1 0.0
With a disability 54 9.4   Hungarian 9 0.4
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,164 100.0   Irish¹ 257 11.9
With a disability 182 15.6   Italian 95 4.4
 Percent employed 48.4 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 982 84.4   Norwegian 11 0.5
 Percent employed 83.8 (X)   Polish 40 1.8
     Population 65 years and over 266 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 91 34.2   Russian 9 0.4
        Scotch-Irish 19 0.9
        Scottish 25 1.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,007 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,355 67.5   Swedish 16 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 639 31.8   Swiss 19 0.9
 Same county 469 23.4   Ukrainian 5 0.2
 Different county 170 8.5   United States or American 201 9.3
  Same state 139 6.9   Welsh 33 1.5
  Different state 31 1.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 13 0.6   Other ancestries 199 9.2
 
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.