DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lenox 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 8,665 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,021 100.0   Native 8,505 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 153 7.6       Born in United States 8,485 97.9
Kindergarten 130 6.4           State of residence 7,631 88.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 949 47.0           Different state 854 9.9
High school (grades 9-12) 570 28.2       Born outside United States 20 0.2
College or graduate school 219 10.8   Foreign born 160 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 28 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 75 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 5,864 100.0       Not a citizen 85 1.0
Less than 9th grade 296 5.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 858 14.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,139 36.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 160 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,050 17.9   Europe 65 40.6
Associate degree 452 7.7   Asia 68 42.5
Bachelor's degree 771 13.1   Africa 4 2.5
Graduate or professional degree 298 5.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 21 13.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.3 (X)   Northern America 2 1.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 18.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 8,008 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,831 100.0   English only 7,640 95.4
Never married 1,574 23.0   Language other than English 368 4.5
Now married, except separated 3,735 54.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 130 1.6
Separated 164 2.4   Spanish 140 1.7
Widowed 598 8.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 69 0.9
 Female 496 7.3   Other Indo-European languages 147 1.8
Divorced 760 11.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 26 0.3
 Female 406 5.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 24 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 10 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 8,665 100.0
           under 18 years 89 100.0     Total ancestries reported 10,315 119.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 40 44.9   Arab 74 0.9
        Czech¹ 20 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 8 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,420 100.0   Dutch 351 4.1
Civilian veterans 929 14.5   English 1,238 14.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 506 5.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 170 2.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,897 21.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,856 100.0   Greek 14 0.2
With a disability 143 7.7   Hungarian 32 0.4
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,872 100.0   Irish¹ 1,657 19.1
With a disability 976 20.0   Italian 1,977 22.8
 Percent employed 45.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 3,896 80.0   Norwegian 20 0.2
 Percent employed 80.4 (X)   Polish 485 5.6
     Population 65 years and over 1,280 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 501 39.1   Russian 49 0.6
        Scotch-Irish 99 1.1
        Scottish 216 2.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 3 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 8,008 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 4,970 62.1   Swedish 27 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,972 37.1   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 1,981 24.7   Ukrainian 76 0.9
 Different county 991 12.4   United States or American 609 7.0
  Same state 811 10.1   Welsh 142 1.6
  Different state 180 2.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 6 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 66 0.8   Other ancestries 639 7.4
 
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.