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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Wayne 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 2,509 100.0
      enrolled in school 719 100.0   Native 2,466 98.3
Nursery school, preschool 44 6.1       Born in United States 2,458 98.0
Kindergarten 54 7.5           State of residence 1,920 76.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 360 50.1           Different state 538 21.4
High school (grades 9-12) 185 25.7       Born outside United States 8 0.3
College or graduate school 76 10.6   Foreign born 43 1.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 17 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 18 0.7
  Population 25 years and over 1,493 100.0       Not a citizen 25 1.0
Less than 9th grade 24 1.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 147 9.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 393 26.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 43 100.0
Some college, no degree 468 31.3   Europe 16 37.2
Associate degree 149 10.0   Asia 5 11.6
Bachelor's degree 237 15.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 75 5.0   Oceania 3 7.0
        Latin America 16 37.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 88.5 (X)   Northern America 3 7.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 20.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,297 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,848 100.0   English only 2,224 96.8
Never married 347 18.8   Language other than English 73 3.2
Now married, except separated 1,266 68.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 28 1.2
Separated 27 1.5   Spanish 33 1.4
Widowed 97 5.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 23 1.0
 Female 78 4.2   Other Indo-European languages 38 1.7
Divorced 111 6.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.2
 Female 53 2.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2 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 2,509 100.0
           under 18 years 37 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,425 96.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 19 51.4   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 180 7.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,697 100.0   Dutch 130 5.2
Civilian veterans 232 13.7   English 890 35.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 34 1.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 189 7.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 678 100.0   Greek 9 0.4
With a disability 42 6.2   Hungarian 2 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,260 100.0   Irish¹ 107 4.3
With a disability 181 14.4   Italian 24 1.0
 Percent employed 63.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,079 85.6   Norwegian 107 4.3
 Percent employed 77.8 (X)   Polish 18 0.7
     Population 65 years and over 352 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 162 46.0   Russian 5 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 37 1.5
        Scottish 92 3.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 2 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 2,297 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,441 62.7   Swedish 81 3.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 846 36.8   Swiss 20 0.8
 Same county 276 12.0   Ukrainian 4 0.2
 Different county 570 24.8   United States or American 194 7.7
  Same state 376 16.4   Welsh 35 1.4
  Different state 194 8.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 2 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 10 0.4   Other ancestries 263 10.5
 
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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