DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Nelson 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 1,971 100.0
      enrolled in school 541 100.0   Native 1,953 99.1
Nursery school, preschool 28 5.2       Born in United States 1,946 98.7
Kindergarten 20 3.7           State of residence 1,629 82.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 280 51.8           Different state 317 16.1
High school (grades 9-12) 149 27.5       Born outside United States 7 0.4
College or graduate school 64 11.8   Foreign born 18 0.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 2 0.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 12 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 1,289 100.0       Not a citizen 6 0.3
Less than 9th grade 21 1.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 115 8.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 324 25.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 18 100.0
Some college, no degree 274 21.3   Europe 8 44.4
Associate degree 186 14.4   Asia 4 22.2
Bachelor's degree 204 15.8   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 165 12.8   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 1 5.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 89.4 (X)   Northern America 5 27.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 28.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,845 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,499 100.0   English only 1,807 97.9
Never married 304 20.3   Language other than English 38 2.1
Now married, except separated 1,007 67.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 17 0.9
Separated 27 1.8   Spanish 30 1.6
Widowed 62 4.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 13 0.7
 Female 49 3.3   Other Indo-European languages 4 0.2
Divorced 99 6.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 40 2.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 4 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 1,971 100.0
           under 18 years 18 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,354 119.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 5 27.8   Arab 2 0.1
        Czech¹ 4 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 5 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,392 100.0   Dutch 79 4.0
Civilian veterans 204 14.7   English 396 20.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 106 5.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 41 2.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 432 21.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 497 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 33 6.6   Hungarian 4 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,164 100.0   Irish¹ 417 21.2
With a disability 137 11.8   Italian 170 8.6
 Percent employed 65.0 (X)   Lithuanian 3 0.2
No disability 1,027 88.2   Norwegian 11 0.6
 Percent employed 82.5 (X)   Polish 97 4.9
     Population 65 years and over 184 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 76 41.3   Russian 24 1.2
        Scotch-Irish 38 1.9
        Scottish 59 3.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,845 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,341 72.7   Swedish 18 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 497 26.9   Swiss 4 0.2
 Same county 314 17.0   Ukrainian 22 1.1
 Different county 183 9.9   United States or American 162 8.2
  Same state 123 6.7   Welsh 142 7.2
  Different state 60 3.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 7 0.4   Other ancestries 118 6.0
 
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.