DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stockbridge 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 2,092 100.0
      enrolled in school 523 100.0   Native 2,062 98.6
Nursery school, preschool 24 4.6       Born in United States 2,054 98.2
Kindergarten 31 5.9           State of residence 1,878 89.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 256 48.9           Different state 176 8.4
High school (grades 9-12) 161 30.8       Born outside United States 8 0.4
College or graduate school 51 9.8   Foreign born 30 1.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 5 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 20 1.0
  Population 25 years and over 1,285 100.0       Not a citizen 10 0.5
Less than 9th grade 64 5.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 187 14.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 561 43.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 30 100.0
Some college, no degree 218 17.0   Europe 17 56.7
Associate degree 147 11.4   Asia 2 6.7
Bachelor's degree 73 5.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 35 2.7   Oceania 3 10.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.5 (X)   Northern America 8 26.7
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 8.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,895 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,574 100.0   English only 1,818 95.9
Never married 424 26.9   Language other than English 77 4.1
Now married, except separated 916 58.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 13 0.7
Separated 29 1.8   Spanish 23 1.2
Widowed 98 6.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.2
 Female 77 4.9   Other Indo-European languages 54 2.8
Divorced 107 6.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.5
 Female 53 3.4   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 2,092 100.0
           under 18 years 34 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,291 109.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 17 50.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 2 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,465 100.0   Dutch 77 3.7
Civilian veterans 203 13.9   English 376 18.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 208 9.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 31 1.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 485 23.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 511 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 50 9.8   Hungarian 2 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,172 100.0   Irish¹ 384 18.4
With a disability 281 24.0   Italian 134 6.4
 Percent employed 56.6 (X)   Lithuanian 3 0.1
No disability 891 76.0   Norwegian 18 0.9
 Percent employed 79.2 (X)   Polish 118 5.6
     Population 65 years and over 212 100.0   Portuguese 6 0.3
With a disability 85 40.1   Russian 17 0.8
        Scotch-Irish 9 0.4
        Scottish 39 1.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,895 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,279 67.5   Swedish 35 1.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 610 32.2   Swiss 38 1.8
 Same county 433 22.8   Ukrainian 8 0.4
 Different county 177 9.3   United States or American 136 6.5
  Same state 138 7.3   Welsh 50 2.4
  Different state 39 2.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 6 0.3   Other ancestries 115 5.5
 
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.