DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Parish 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 2,695 100.0
      enrolled in school 746 100.0   Native 2,674 99.2
Nursery school, preschool 31 4.2       Born in United States 2,670 99.1
Kindergarten 43 5.8           State of residence 2,434 90.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 392 52.5           Different state 236 8.8
High school (grades 9-12) 220 29.5       Born outside United States 4 0.1
College or graduate school 60 8.0   Foreign born 21 0.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 8 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 1,706 100.0       Not a citizen 13 0.5
Less than 9th grade 92 5.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 231 13.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 826 48.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 21 100.0
Some college, no degree 223 13.1   Europe 5 23.8
Associate degree 155 9.1   Asia 3 14.3
Bachelor's degree 118 6.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 61 3.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 81.1 (X)   Northern America 13 61.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,522 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,049 100.0   English only 2,440 96.7
Never married 489 23.9   Language other than English 82 3.3
Now married, except separated 1,204 58.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 19 0.8
Separated 70 3.4   Spanish 39 1.5
Widowed 95 4.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 6 0.2
 Female 79 3.9   Other Indo-European languages 43 1.7
Divorced 191 9.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 13 0.5
 Female 92 4.5   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 2,695 100.0
           under 18 years 47 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,949 109.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 13 27.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 2 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,893 100.0   Dutch 108 4.0
Civilian veterans 281 14.8   English 406 15.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 279 10.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 174 6.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 474 17.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 736 100.0   Greek 8 0.3
With a disability 79 10.7   Hungarian 18 0.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,558 100.0   Irish¹ 456 16.9
With a disability 311 20.0   Italian 201 7.5
 Percent employed 35.7 (X)   Lithuanian 3 0.1
No disability 1,247 80.0   Norwegian 9 0.3
 Percent employed 78.4 (X)   Polish 224 8.3
     Population 65 years and over 224 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 72 32.1   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 34 1.3
        Scottish 66 2.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,522 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,659 65.8   Swedish 6 0.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 844 33.5   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 587 23.3   Ukrainian 23 0.9
 Different county 257 10.2   United States or American 193 7.2
  Same state 196 7.8   Welsh 66 2.4
  Different state 61 2.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 19 0.8   Other ancestries 199 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.