DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Palermo 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 3,686 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,011 100.0   Native 3,667 99.5
Nursery school, preschool 46 4.5       Born in United States 3,653 99.1
Kindergarten 54 5.3           State of residence 3,375 91.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 567 56.1           Different state 278 7.5
High school (grades 9-12) 253 25.0       Born outside United States 14 0.4
College or graduate school 91 9.0   Foreign born 19 0.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 7 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 14 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 2,331 100.0       Not a citizen 5 0.1
Less than 9th grade 153 6.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 332 14.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,048 45.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 19 100.0
Some college, no degree 419 18.0   Europe 12 63.2
Associate degree 166 7.1   Asia 7 36.8
Bachelor's degree 130 5.6   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 83 3.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 79.2 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 9.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,449 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,784 100.0   English only 3,368 97.7
Never married 612 22.0   Language other than English 81 2.3
Now married, except separated 1,798 64.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 33 1.0
Separated 47 1.7   Spanish 30 0.9
Widowed 105 3.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 13 0.4
 Female 72 2.6   Other Indo-European languages 49 1.4
Divorced 222 8.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 18 0.5
 Female 106 3.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 3,686 100.0
           under 18 years 54 100.0     Total ancestries reported 3,934 106.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 34 63.0   Arab 7 0.2
        Czech¹ 16 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 4 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,605 100.0   Dutch 109 3.0
Civilian veterans 390 15.0   English 620 16.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 407 11.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 107 2.9
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 703 19.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 987 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 82 8.3   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,160 100.0   Irish¹ 414 11.2
With a disability 457 21.2   Italian 306 8.3
 Percent employed 53.6 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,703 78.8   Norwegian 7 0.2
 Percent employed 82.3 (X)   Polish 185 5.0
     Population 65 years and over 302 100.0   Portuguese 12 0.3
With a disability 147 48.7   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 58 1.6
        Scottish 129 3.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 3,449 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,405 69.7   Swedish 37 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,044 30.3   Swiss 25 0.7
 Same county 567 16.4   Ukrainian 5 0.1
 Different county 477 13.8   United States or American 439 11.9
  Same state 416 12.1   Welsh 11 0.3
  Different state 61 1.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 333 9.0
 
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.