DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: De Witt 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 24,071 100.0
      enrolled in school 6,020 100.0   Native 22,038 91.6
Nursery school, preschool 372 6.2       Born in United States 21,904 91.0
Kindergarten 336 5.6           State of residence 18,396 76.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,751 45.7           Different state 3,508 14.6
High school (grades 9-12) 1,408 23.4       Born outside United States 134 0.6
College or graduate school 1,153 19.2   Foreign born 2,033 8.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 783 3.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,244 5.2
  Population 25 years and over 16,885 100.0       Not a citizen 789 3.3
Less than 9th grade 435 2.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,411 8.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 4,242 25.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 2,033 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,857 16.9   Europe 938 46.1
Associate degree 1,439 8.5   Asia 812 39.9
Bachelor's degree 3,284 19.4   Africa 44 2.2
Graduate or professional degree 3,217 19.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 75 3.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 89.1 (X)   Northern America 164 8.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 38.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 22,731 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 19,266 100.0   English only 20,399 89.7
Never married 4,737 24.6   Language other than English 2,332 10.0
Now married, except separated 10,732 55.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 800 3.5
Separated 437 2.3   Spanish 300 1.3
Widowed 1,587 8.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 104 0.5
 Female 1,332 6.9   Other Indo-European languages 1,368 6.0
Divorced 1,773 9.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 455 2.0
 Female 1,085 5.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 427 1.9
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 191 0.8
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 24,071 100.0
           under 18 years 307 100.0     Total ancestries reported 29,201 121.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 95 30.9   Arab 307 1.3
        Czech¹ 79 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 80 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 18,270 100.0   Dutch 489 2.0
Civilian veterans 2,426 13.3   English 3,151 13.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,220 5.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 522 2.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 4,660 19.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 5,037 100.0   Greek 192 0.8
With a disability 370 7.3   Hungarian 149 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 12,963 100.0   Irish¹ 4,973 20.7
With a disability 2,102 16.2   Italian 3,709 15.4
 Percent employed 60.7 (X)   Lithuanian 106 0.4
No disability 10,861 83.8   Norwegian 60 0.2
 Percent employed 80.8 (X)   Polish 1,852 7.7
     Population 65 years and over 4,408 100.0   Portuguese 30 0.1
With a disability 1,584 35.9   Russian 607 2.5
        Scotch-Irish 296 1.2
        Scottish 644 2.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 44 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 22,731 100.0   Subsaharan African 102 0.4
Same house in 1995 14,052 61.8   Swedish 175 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 8,266 36.4   Swiss 181 0.8
 Same county 6,148 27.0   Ukrainian 326 1.4
 Different county 2,118 9.3   United States or American 984 4.1
  Same state 1,229 5.4   Welsh 176 0.7
  Different state 889 3.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 57 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995 413 1.8   Other ancestries 4,030 16.7
 
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.