DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Van Buren 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 12,667 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,014 100.0   Native 12,382 97.8
Nursery school, preschool 141 4.7       Born in United States 12,341 97.4
Kindergarten 140 4.6           State of residence 10,941 86.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,528 50.7           Different state 1,400 11.1
High school (grades 9-12) 659 21.9       Born outside United States 41 0.3
College or graduate school 546 18.1   Foreign born 285 2.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 83 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 152 1.2
  Population 25 years and over 8,914 100.0       Not a citizen 133 1.0
Less than 9th grade 161 1.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 946 10.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,317 37.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 285 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,910 21.4   Europe 115 40.4
Associate degree 854 9.6   Asia 74 26.0
Bachelor's degree 1,089 12.2   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 637 7.1   Oceania 6 2.1
        Latin America 13 4.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 87.6 (X)   Northern America 77 27.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 19.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 11,943 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 10,167 100.0   English only 11,570 96.9
Never married 2,364 23.3   Language other than English 373 3.1
Now married, except separated 5,480 53.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 80 0.7
Separated 298 2.9   Spanish 118 1.0
Widowed 706 6.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 28 0.2
 Female 562 5.5   Other Indo-European languages 233 2.0
Divorced 1,319 13.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 37 0.3
 Female 781 7.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 15 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 15 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 12,667 100.0
           under 18 years 179 100.0     Total ancestries reported 15,487 122.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 105 58.7   Arab 30 0.2
        Czech¹ 82 0.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 47 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 9,649 100.0   Dutch 458 3.6
Civilian veterans 1,394 14.4   English 2,120 16.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,114 8.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 439 3.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,721 21.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,601 100.0   Greek 97 0.8
With a disability 180 6.9   Hungarian 15 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 7,446 100.0   Irish¹ 2,654 21.0
With a disability 1,123 15.1   Italian 1,792 14.1
 Percent employed 55.5 (X)   Lithuanian 48 0.4
No disability 6,323 84.9   Norwegian 51 0.4
 Percent employed 81.9 (X)   Polish 922 7.3
     Population 65 years and over 1,773 100.0   Portuguese 18 0.1
With a disability 703 39.7   Russian 54 0.4
        Scotch-Irish 210 1.7
        Scottish 385 3.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 12 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 11,943 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 7,190 60.2   Swedish 158 1.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 4,716 39.5   Swiss 24 0.2
 Same county 3,276 27.4   Ukrainian 189 1.5
 Different county 1,440 12.1   United States or American 615 4.9
  Same state 988 8.3   Welsh 132 1.0
  Different state 452 3.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 37 0.3   Other ancestries 1,100 8.7
 
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.