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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Oxford 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 54,755 100.0
      enrolled in school 12,792 100.0   Native 53,762 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 713 5.6       Born in United States 53,431 97.6
Kindergarten 679 5.3           State of residence 38,679 70.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 6,482 50.7           Different state 14,752 26.9
High school (grades 9-12) 3,513 27.5       Born outside United States 331 0.6
College or graduate school 1,405 11.0   Foreign born 993 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 206 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 631 1.2
  Population 25 years and over 37,929 100.0       Not a citizen 362 0.7
Less than 9th grade 2,185 5.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 4,508 11.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 16,317 43.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 993 100.0
Some college, no degree 6,705 17.7   Europe 332 33.4
Associate degree 2,255 5.9   Asia 199 20.0
Bachelor's degree 3,985 10.5   Africa 13 1.3
Graduate or professional degree 1,974 5.2   Oceania 8 0.8
        Latin America 103 10.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 82.4 (X)   Northern America 338 34.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 51,888 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 44,138 100.0   English only 49,529 95.5
Never married 9,328 21.1   Language other than English 2,359 4.5
Now married, except separated 25,535 57.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 551 1.1
Separated 589 1.3   Spanish 318 0.6
Widowed 3,416 7.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 83 0.2
 Female 2,676 6.1   Other Indo-European languages 1,758 3.4
Divorced 5,270 11.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 391 0.8
 Female 2,904 6.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 154 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 41 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 54,755 100.0
           under 18 years 481 100.0     Total ancestries reported 57,006 104.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 194 40.3   Arab 77 0.1
        Czech¹ 93 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 161 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 41,535 100.0   Dutch 621 1.1
Civilian veterans 7,026 16.9   English 12,897 23.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 7,747 14.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 3,932 7.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,328 6.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 12,048 100.0   Greek 132 0.2
With a disability 1,084 9.0   Hungarian 77 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 30,941 100.0   Irish¹ 6,730 12.3
With a disability 6,624 21.4   Italian 2,196 4.0
 Percent employed 52.1 (X)   Lithuanian 626 1.1
No disability 24,317 78.6   Norwegian 293 0.5
 Percent employed 80.5 (X)   Polish 690 1.3
     Population 65 years and over 8,228 100.0   Portuguese 217 0.4
With a disability 3,450 41.9   Russian 214 0.4
        Scotch-Irish 1,407 2.6
        Scottish 2,628 4.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 72 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 51,888 100.0   Subsaharan African 14 0.0
Same house in 1995 33,772 65.1   Swedish 658 1.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 17,841 34.4   Swiss 64 0.1
 Same county 10,137 19.5   Ukrainian 40 0.1
 Different county 7,704 14.8   United States or American 5,798 10.6
  Same state 4,157 8.0   Welsh 400 0.7
  Different state 3,547 6.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 11 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 275 0.5   Other ancestries 5,883 10.7
 
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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