DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hastings 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 8,803 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,294 100.0   Native 8,682 98.6
Nursery school, preschool 110 4.8       Born in United States 8,668 98.5
Kindergarten 187 8.2           State of residence 7,792 88.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,168 50.9           Different state 876 10.0
High school (grades 9-12) 535 23.3       Born outside United States 14 0.2
College or graduate school 294 12.8   Foreign born 121 1.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 13 0.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 81 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 5,783 100.0       Not a citizen 40 0.5
Less than 9th grade 227 3.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 839 14.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,422 41.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 121 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,084 18.7   Europe 54 44.6
Associate degree 554 9.6   Asia 15 12.4
Bachelor's degree 406 7.0   Africa 2 1.7
Graduate or professional degree 251 4.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 4 3.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 81.6 (X)   Northern America 46 38.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 8,273 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,804 100.0   English only 8,006 96.8
Never married 1,546 22.7   Language other than English 267 3.2
Now married, except separated 3,988 58.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 74 0.9
Separated 215 3.2   Spanish 91 1.1
Widowed 388 5.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 43 0.5
 Female 331 4.9   Other Indo-European languages 159 1.9
Divorced 667 9.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 31 0.4
 Female 331 4.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 9 0.1
                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 8,803 100.0
           under 18 years 118 100.0     Total ancestries reported 10,402 118.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 54 45.8   Arab 15 0.2
        Czech¹ 28 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 37 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,409 100.0   Dutch 423 4.8
Civilian veterans 956 14.9   English 1,406 16.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,099 12.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 373 4.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,799 20.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,148 100.0   Greek 14 0.2
With a disability 108 5.0   Hungarian 46 0.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 5,149 100.0   Irish¹ 1,575 17.9
With a disability 831 16.1   Italian 994 11.3
 Percent employed 50.1 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 4,318 83.9   Norwegian 55 0.6
 Percent employed 80.2 (X)   Polish 496 5.6
     Population 65 years and over 974 100.0   Portuguese 16 0.2
With a disability 417 42.8   Russian 63 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 156 1.8
        Scottish 252 2.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 34 0.4
  Population 5 years and over 8,273 N/A   Subsaharan African 2 0.0
Same house in 1995 5,014 60.6   Swedish 47 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,236 39.1   Swiss 61 0.7
 Same county 1,784 21.6   Ukrainian 37 0.4
 Different county 1,452 17.6   United States or American 504 5.7
  Same state 1,265 15.3   Welsh 85 1.0
  Different state 187 2.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 2 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 23 0.3   Other ancestries 783 8.9
 
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.