DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: New Haven 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 2,930 100.0
      enrolled in school 829 100.0   Native 2,887 98.5
Nursery school, preschool 26 3.1       Born in United States 2,882 98.4
Kindergarten 36 4.3           State of residence 2,501 85.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 458 55.2           Different state 381 13.0
High school (grades 9-12) 180 21.7       Born outside United States 5 0.2
College or graduate school 129 15.6   Foreign born 43 1.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 4 0.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 36 1.2
  Population 25 years and over 1,832 100.0       Not a citizen 7 0.2
Less than 9th grade 52 2.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 253 13.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 884 48.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 43 100.0
Some college, no degree 334 18.2   Europe 22 51.2
Associate degree 97 5.3   Asia 11 25.6
Bachelor's degree 147 8.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 65 3.5   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 83.4 (X)   Northern America 10 23.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,743 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,211 100.0   English only 2,639 96.2
Never married 590 26.7   Language other than English 104 3.8
Now married, except separated 1,257 56.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 50 1.8
Separated 73 3.3   Spanish 12 0.4
Widowed 120 5.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.2
 Female 102 4.6   Other Indo-European languages 81 3.0
Divorced 171 7.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 41 1.5
 Female 86 3.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 7 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 2,930 100.0
           under 18 years 52 100.0     Total ancestries reported 3,067 104.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 19 36.5   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 8 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,060 100.0   Dutch 132 4.5
Civilian veterans 344 16.7   English 522 17.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 268 9.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 66 2.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 390 13.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 792 100.0   Greek 13 0.4
With a disability 88 11.1   Hungarian 4 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,704 100.0   Irish¹ 382 13.0
With a disability 342 20.1   Italian 223 7.6
 Percent employed 52.0 (X)   Lithuanian 7 0.2
No disability 1,362 79.9   Norwegian 13 0.4
 Percent employed 75.4 (X)   Polish 123 4.2
     Population 65 years and over 242 100.0   Portuguese 3 0.1
With a disability 121 50.0   Russian 8 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 35 1.2
        Scottish 80 2.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 19 0.6
  Population 5 years and over 2,743 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,728 63.0   Swedish 46 1.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,013 36.9   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 795 29.0   Ukrainian 35 1.2
 Different county 218 7.9   United States or American 362 12.4
  Same state 93 3.4   Welsh 31 1.1
  Different state 125 4.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 2 0.1   Other ancestries 297 10.1
 
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.