DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hamilton 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 5,736 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,099 100.0   Native 5,496 95.8
Nursery school, preschool 44 1.4       Born in United States 5,455 95.1
Kindergarten 44 1.4           State of residence 3,285 57.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 462 14.9           Different state 2,170 37.8
High school (grades 9-12) 225 7.3       Born outside United States 41 0.7
College or graduate school 2,324 75.0   Foreign born 240 4.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 89 1.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 96 1.7
  Population 25 years and over 2,486 100.0       Not a citizen 144 2.5
Less than 9th grade 76 3.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 197 7.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 641 25.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 240 100.0
Some college, no degree 475 19.1   Europe 63 26.3
Associate degree 233 9.4   Asia 98 40.8
Bachelor's degree 396 15.9   Africa 3 1.3
Graduate or professional degree 468 18.8   Oceania 5 2.1
        Latin America 40 16.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 89.0 (X)   Northern America 31 12.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 34.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 5,541 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,999 100.0   English only 5,157 93.1
Never married 2,654 53.1   Language other than English 384 6.9
Now married, except separated 1,784 35.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 75 1.4
Separated 62 1.2   Spanish 139 2.5
Widowed 237 4.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 12 0.2
 Female 189 3.8   Other Indo-European languages 107 1.9
Divorced 262 5.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 31 0.6
 Female 168 3.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 126 2.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 32 0.6
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 5,736 100.0
           under 18 years 30 100.0     Total ancestries reported 7,160 124.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 20 66.7   Arab 11 0.2
        Czech¹ 59 1.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 52 0.9
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,830 100.0   Dutch 193 3.4
Civilian veterans 354 7.3   English 1,189 20.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 186 3.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 65 1.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 916 16.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,312 100.0   Greek 20 0.3
With a disability 99 4.3   Hungarian 52 0.9
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,593 100.0   Irish¹ 917 16.0
With a disability 393 15.2   Italian 483 8.4
 Percent employed 46.6 (X)   Lithuanian 33 0.6
No disability 2,200 84.8   Norwegian 89 1.6
 Percent employed 71.2 (X)   Polish 379 6.6
     Population 65 years and over 598 100.0   Portuguese 14 0.2
With a disability 208 34.8   Russian 226 3.9
        Scotch-Irish 164 2.9
        Scottish 245 4.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 39 0.7
  Population 5 years and over 5,541 N/A   Subsaharan African 16 0.3
Same house in 1995 2,480 44.8   Swedish 91 1.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,949 53.2   Swiss 93 1.6
 Same county 640 11.6   Ukrainian 41 0.7
 Different county 2,309 41.7   United States or American 379 6.6
  Same state 881 15.9   Welsh 147 2.6
  Different state 1,428 25.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 80 1.4
Elsewhere in 1995 112 2.0   Other ancestries 981 17.1
 
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.