DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Brookfield 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 2,403 100.0
      enrolled in school 651 100.0   Native 2,367 98.5
Nursery school, preschool 44 6.8       Born in United States 2,362 98.3
Kindergarten 33 5.1           State of residence 2,170 90.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 340 52.2           Different state 192 8.0
High school (grades 9-12) 171 26.3       Born outside United States 5 0.2
College or graduate school 63 9.7   Foreign born 36 1.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 13 0.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 17 0.7
  Population 25 years and over 1,526 100.0       Not a citizen 19 0.8
Less than 9th grade 58 3.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 286 18.7   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 675 44.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 36 100.0
Some college, no degree 210 13.8   Europe 16 44.4
Associate degree 156 10.2   Asia 6 16.7
Bachelor's degree 77 5.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 64 4.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 8 22.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 77.5 (X)   Northern America 6 16.7
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 9.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,242 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,844 100.0   English only 2,126 94.8
Never married 394 21.4   Language other than English 116 5.2
Now married, except separated 1,085 58.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 23 1.0
Separated 40 2.2   Spanish 75 3.3
Widowed 136 7.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 12 0.5
 Female 95 5.2   Other Indo-European languages 29 1.3
Divorced 189 10.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 6 0.3
 Female 94 5.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 12 0.5
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 2,403 100.0
           under 18 years 24 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,598 108.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 7 29.2   Arab 17 0.7
        Czech¹ 10 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 2 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,716 100.0   Dutch 133 5.5
Civilian veterans 249 14.5   English 554 23.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 111 4.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 36 1.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 269 11.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 604 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 37 6.1   Hungarian 13 0.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,382 100.0   Irish¹ 369 15.4
With a disability 224 16.2   Italian 143 6.0
 Percent employed 45.1 (X)   Lithuanian 33 1.4
No disability 1,158 83.8   Norwegian 21 0.9
 Percent employed 82.3 (X)   Polish 143 6.0
     Population 65 years and over 256 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 122 47.7   Russian 2 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 22 0.9
        Scottish 24 1.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 4 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 2,242 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,646 73.4   Swedish 31 1.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 594 26.5   Swiss 4 0.2
 Same county 212 9.5   Ukrainian 4 0.2
 Different county 382 17.0   United States or American 329 13.7
  Same state 319 14.2   Welsh 152 6.3
  Different state 63 2.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 2 0.1   Other ancestries 172 7.2
 
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.