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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kent 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 859 100.0
      enrolled in school 179 100.0   Native 844 98.3
Nursery school, preschool 2 1.1       Born in United States 835 97.2
Kindergarten 3 1.7           State of residence 734 85.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 102 57.0           Different state 101 11.8
High school (grades 9-12) 60 33.5       Born outside United States 9 1.0
College or graduate school 12 6.7   Foreign born 15 1.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 3 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 9 1.0
  Population 25 years and over 643 100.0       Not a citizen 6 0.7
Less than 9th grade 61 9.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 80 12.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 238 37.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 15 100.0
Some college, no degree 147 22.9   Europe 2 13.3
Associate degree 20 3.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 65 10.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 32 5.0   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 13 86.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 78.1 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 832 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 720 100.0   English only 737 88.6
Never married 107 14.9   Language other than English 95 11.4
Now married, except separated 498 69.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 35 4.2
Separated 1 0.1   Spanish 95 11.4
Widowed 62 8.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 35 4.2
 Female 53 7.4   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 52 7.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 18 2.5   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                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 859 100.0
           under 18 years 6 100.0     Total ancestries reported 555 64.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 4 66.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 683 100.0   Dutch 7 0.8
Civilian veterans 102 14.9   English 120 14.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 13 1.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 72 8.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 172 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 15 8.7   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 443 100.0   Irish¹ 48 5.6
With a disability 72 16.3   Italian 3 0.3
 Percent employed 34.7 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 371 83.7   Norwegian 6 0.7
 Percent employed 82.2 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 179 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 89 49.7   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 17 2.0
        Scottish 14 1.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 832 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 522 62.7   Swedish 6 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 310 37.3   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 104 12.5   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 206 24.8   United States or American 90 10.5
  Same state 184 22.1   Welsh 2 0.2
  Different state 22 2.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 3 0.3
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 154 17.9
 
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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