
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Rutland 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 | 63,400 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 16,135 | 100.0 | Native | 62,153 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 991 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 61,832 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 808 | 5.0 | State of residence | 39,263 | 61.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,201 | 44.6 | Different state | 22,569 | 35.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,739 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 321 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,396 | 21.0 | Foreign born | 1,247 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 253 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 797 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 43,289 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 450 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,324 | 5.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,478 | 10.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 15,500 | 35.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,247 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,844 | 18.1 | Europe | 636 | 51.0 | |
| Associate degree | 3,099 | 7.2 | Asia | 185 | 14.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 6,604 | 15.3 | Africa | 15 | 1.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,440 | 7.9 | Oceania | 25 | 2.0 | |
| Latin America | 89 | 7.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.3 | (X) | Northern America | 297 | 23.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 60,188 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 51,419 | 100.0 | English only | 57,392 | 95.4 | |
| Never married | 13,367 | 26.0 | Language other than English | 2,796 | 4.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 27,563 | 53.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 738 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 645 | 1.3 | Spanish | 689 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 3,922 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 192 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 3,124 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,919 | 3.2 | |
| Divorced | 5,922 | 11.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 479 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 3,324 | 6.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 108 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 40 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 63,400 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 627 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 72,947 | 115.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 186 | 29.7 | Arab | 101 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 359 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 225 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 48,627 | 100.0 | Dutch | 938 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 7,058 | 14.5 | English | 10,042 | 15.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 9,996 | 15.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,264 | 5.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,463 | 8.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 14,142 | 100.0 | Greek | 281 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,340 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 574 | 0.9 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 36,368 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 12,604 | 19.9 | |
| With a disability | 6,587 | 18.1 | Italian | 6,289 | 9.9 | |
| Percent employed | 57.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 119 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 29,781 | 81.9 | Norwegian | 376 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 81.6 | (X) | Polish | 3,877 | 6.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,896 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 166 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 3,402 | 38.2 | Russian | 369 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,113 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,315 | 3.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 90 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 60,188 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 56 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 37,342 | 62.0 | Swedish | 1,413 | 2.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 22,570 | 37.5 | Swiss | 127 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 14,536 | 24.2 | Ukrainian | 181 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 8,034 | 13.3 | United States or American | 5,037 | 7.9 | |
| Same state | 2,411 | 4.0 | Welsh | 1,397 | 2.2 | |
| Different state | 5,623 | 9.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 24 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 276 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 6,151 | 9.7 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

