
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Williamsburg city
[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 | 11,998 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,365 | 100.0 | Native | 11,376 | 94.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 130 | 2.0 | Born in United States | 11,137 | 92.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 0.4 | State of residence | 4,502 | 37.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 582 | 9.1 | Different state | 6,635 | 55.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 224 | 3.5 | Born outside United States | 239 | 2.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 5,403 | 84.9 | Foreign born | 622 | 5.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 280 | 2.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 253 | 2.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,360 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 369 | 3.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 202 | 3.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 355 | 6.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,115 | 20.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 622 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,023 | 19.1 | Europe | 210 | 33.8 | |
| Associate degree | 252 | 4.7 | Asia | 243 | 39.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,268 | 23.7 | Africa | 37 | 5.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,145 | 21.4 | Oceania | 21 | 3.4 | |
| Latin America | 50 | 8.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 89.6 | (X) | Northern America | 61 | 9.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 45.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,675 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 11,009 | 100.0 | English only | 10,776 | 92.3 | |
| Never married | 3,341 | 30.3 | Language other than English | 899 | 7.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,952 | 54.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 311 | 2.7 | |
| Separated | 222 | 2.0 | Spanish | 178 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 638 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 470 | 4.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 422 | 3.6 | |
| Divorced | 856 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 104 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 579 | 5.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 265 | 2.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 157 | 1.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,998 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 45 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,357 | 86.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 0 | 0.0 | Arab | 32 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 41 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 41 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,762 | 100.0 | Dutch | 153 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 956 | 8.9 | English | 1,805 | 15.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 244 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 38 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,491 | 12.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,143 | 100.0 | Greek | 77 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 327 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 155 | 1.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,007 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,194 | 10.0 | |
| With a disability | 866 | 14.4 | Italian | 402 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 47.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 35 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 5,141 | 85.6 | Norwegian | 107 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 61.1 | (X) | Polish | 298 | 2.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,335 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 33 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 467 | 35.0 | Russian | 95 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 316 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 390 | 3.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 61 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,675 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 59 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,268 | 28.0 | Swedish | 158 | 1.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,041 | 68.9 | Swiss | 68 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 734 | 6.3 | Ukrainian | 45 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 7,307 | 62.6 | United States or American | 444 | 3.7 | |
| Same state | 4,421 | 37.9 | Welsh | 146 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 2,886 | 24.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 366 | 3.1 | Other ancestries | 2,413 | 20.1 | |
| 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)

