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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cumberland County
[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 7,147 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,566 100.0   Native 7,128 99.7
Nursery school, preschool 51 3.3       Born in United States 7,094 99.3
Kindergarten 106 6.8           State of residence 5,987 83.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 828 52.9           Different state 1,107 15.5
High school (grades 9-12) 441 28.2       Born outside United States 34 0.5
College or graduate school 140 8.9   Foreign born 19 0.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 5 0.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 9 0.1
  Population 25 years and over 4,972 100.0       Not a citizen 10 0.1
Less than 9th grade 1,400 28.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 789 15.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,808 36.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 19 100.0
Some college, no degree 475 9.6   Europe 2 10.5
Associate degree 146 2.9   Asia 2 10.5
Bachelor's degree 159 3.2   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 195 3.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 9 47.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 56.0 (X)   Northern America 6 31.6
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 7.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 6,746 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 5,802 100.0   English only 6,629 98.3
Never married 1,058 18.2   Language other than English 117 1.7
Now married, except separated 3,446 59.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 43 0.6
Separated 118 2.0   Spanish 72 1.1
Widowed 547 9.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 30 0.4
 Female 464 8.0   Other Indo-European languages 40 0.6
Divorced 633 10.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 11 0.2
 Female 289 5.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 5 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 7,147 100.0
           under 18 years 174 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,320 60.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 81 46.6   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 5,461 100.0   Dutch 29 0.4
Civilian veterans 581 10.6   English 474 6.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 49 0.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 8 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 267 3.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,495 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 113 7.6   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,977 100.0   Irish¹ 316 4.4
With a disability 1,285 32.3   Italian 65 0.9
 Percent employed 38.4 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 2,692 67.7   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 76.4 (X)   Polish 12 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 1,171 100.0   Portuguese 3 0.0
With a disability 658 56.2   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 56 0.8
        Scottish 56 0.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 6,746 100.0   Subsaharan African 8 0.1
Same house in 1995 4,483 66.5   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,249 33.3   Swiss 2 0.0
 Same county 1,346 20.0   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 903 13.4   United States or American 2,515 35.2
  Same state 541 8.0   Welsh 7 0.1
  Different state 362 5.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 14 0.2   Other ancestries 453 6.3
 
Date: July 7, 2006
 
-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.
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