DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sullivan 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 14,991 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,898 100.0   Native 14,607 97.4
Nursery school, preschool 246 6.3       Born in United States 14,568 97.2
Kindergarten 162 4.2           State of residence 13,113 87.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,015 51.7           Different state 1,455 9.7
High school (grades 9-12) 1,019 26.1       Born outside United States 39 0.3
College or graduate school 456 11.7   Foreign born 384 2.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 84 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 266 1.8
  Population 25 years and over 9,982 100.0       Not a citizen 118 0.8
Less than 9th grade 347 3.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,199 12.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,568 35.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 384 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,841 18.4   Europe 221 57.6
Associate degree 1,276 12.8   Asia 80 20.8
Bachelor's degree 1,189 11.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 562 5.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 84.5 (X)   Northern America 83 21.6
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 17.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 14,115 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 11,757 100.0   English only 13,519 95.8
Never married 2,707 23.0   Language other than English 596 4.1
Now married, except separated 6,952 59.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 177 1.3
Separated 327 2.8   Spanish 168 1.2
Widowed 615 5.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 47 0.3
 Female 511 4.3   Other Indo-European languages 345 2.4
Divorced 1,156 9.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 114 0.8
 Female 598 5.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 16 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 16 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 14,991 100.0
           under 18 years 132 100.0     Total ancestries reported 17,950 119.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 69 52.3   Arab 67 0.4
        Czech¹ 62 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 108 0.7
          Civilian population 18 years and over 10,902 100.0   Dutch 721 4.8
Civilian veterans 1,473 13.5   English 2,979 19.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,143 7.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 415 2.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,303 22.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 3,592 100.0   Greek 10 0.1
With a disability 336 9.4   Hungarian 46 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 8,848 100.0   Irish¹ 3,291 22.0
With a disability 1,621 18.3   Italian 1,652 11.0
 Percent employed 62.9 (X)   Lithuanian 5 0.0
No disability 7,227 81.7   Norwegian 90 0.6
 Percent employed 79.5 (X)   Polish 1,037 6.9
     Population 65 years and over 1,586 100.0   Portuguese 47 0.3
With a disability 545 34.4   Russian 68 0.5
        Scotch-Irish 185 1.2
        Scottish 294 2.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 6 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 14,115 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 9,256 65.6   Swedish 123 0.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 4,738 33.6   Swiss 160 1.1
 Same county 2,137 15.1   Ukrainian 130 0.9
 Different county 2,601 18.4   United States or American 702 4.7
  Same state 2,280 16.2   Welsh 246 1.6
  Different state 321 2.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 121 0.9   Other ancestries 1,060 7.1
 
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.