DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Williamstown 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 1,334 100.0
      enrolled in school 410 100.0   Native 1,322 99.1
Nursery school, preschool 36 8.8       Born in United States 1,316 98.7
Kindergarten 29 7.1           State of residence 1,236 92.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 215 52.4           Different state 80 6.0
High school (grades 9-12) 102 24.9       Born outside United States 6 0.4
College or graduate school 28 6.8   Foreign born 12 0.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1 0.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 5 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 768 100.0       Not a citizen 7 0.5
Less than 9th grade 33 4.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 146 19.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 357 46.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 12 100.0
Some college, no degree 131 17.1   Europe 12 100.0
Associate degree 45 5.9   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 37 4.8   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 19 2.5   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 76.7 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 7.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,231 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 977 100.0   English only 1,185 96.3
Never married 255 26.1   Language other than English 46 3.7
Now married, except separated 544 55.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.2
Separated 31 3.2   Spanish 21 1.7
Widowed 53 5.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 40 4.1   Other Indo-European languages 23 1.9
Divorced 94 9.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.2
 Female 46 4.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2 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 1,334 100.0
           under 18 years 52 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,338 100.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 30 57.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 898 100.0   Dutch 86 6.4
Civilian veterans 127 14.1   English 218 16.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 153 11.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 46 3.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 197 14.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 388 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 42 10.8   Hungarian 6 0.4
     Population 21 to 64 years 742 100.0   Irish¹ 183 13.7
With a disability 177 23.9   Italian 65 4.9
 Percent employed 41.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 565 76.1   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 73.3 (X)   Polish 74 5.5
     Population 65 years and over 101 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 49 48.5   Russian 3 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 9 0.7
        Scottish 24 1.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,231 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 787 63.9   Swedish 15 1.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 435 35.3   Swiss 2 0.1
 Same county 282 22.9   Ukrainian 7 0.5
 Different county 153 12.4   United States or American 143 10.7
  Same state 112 9.1   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 41 3.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 2 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 9 0.7   Other ancestries 105 7.9
 
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.