DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Richland 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 5,824 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,467 100.0   Native 5,731 98.4
Nursery school, preschool 80 5.5       Born in United States 5,686 97.6
Kindergarten 68 4.6           State of residence 5,123 88.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 829 56.5           Different state 563 9.7
High school (grades 9-12) 349 23.8       Born outside United States 45 0.8
College or graduate school 141 9.6   Foreign born 93 1.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 26 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 50 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 3,800 100.0       Not a citizen 43 0.7
Less than 9th grade 180 4.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 577 15.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,480 38.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 93 100.0
Some college, no degree 642 16.9   Europe 36 38.7
Associate degree 330 8.7   Asia 19 20.4
Bachelor's degree 414 10.9   Africa 6 6.5
Graduate or professional degree 177 4.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.1 (X)   Northern America 32 34.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 5,422 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,490 100.0   English only 5,249 96.8
Never married 1,033 23.0   Language other than English 173 3.2
Now married, except separated 2,510 55.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 82 1.5
Separated 113 2.5   Spanish 49 0.9
Widowed 368 8.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 44 0.8
 Female 291 6.5   Other Indo-European languages 98 1.8
Divorced 466 10.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 38 0.7
 Female 245 5.5   Asian and Pacific Island languages 10 0.2
                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 5,824 100.0
           under 18 years 90 100.0     Total ancestries reported 5,893 101.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 53 58.9   Arab 18 0.3
        Czech¹ 11 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 18 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,195 100.0   Dutch 182 3.1
Civilian veterans 646 15.4   English 1,052 18.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 499 8.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 196 3.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 814 14.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,416 100.0   Greek 15 0.3
With a disability 104 7.3   Hungarian 20 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,231 100.0   Irish¹ 1,082 18.6
With a disability 499 15.4   Italian 343 5.9
 Percent employed 46.3 (X)   Lithuanian 15 0.3
No disability 2,732 84.6   Norwegian 20 0.3
 Percent employed 72.8 (X)   Polish 242 4.2
     Population 65 years and over 769 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 358 46.6   Russian 42 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 65 1.1
        Scottish 148 2.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 5 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 5,422 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 3,222 59.4   Swedish 33 0.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,180 40.2   Swiss 16 0.3
 Same county 1,534 28.3   Ukrainian 50 0.9
 Different county 646 11.9   United States or American 417 7.2
  Same state 423 7.8   Welsh 54 0.9
  Different state 223 4.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 20 0.4   Other ancestries 536 9.2
 
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.