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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Windham 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 109,091 100.0
      enrolled in school 29,936 100.0   Native 104,423 95.7
Nursery school, preschool 1,570 5.2       Born in United States 101,073 92.7
Kindergarten 1,651 5.5           State of residence 66,432 60.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 13,153 43.9           Different state 34,641 31.8
High school (grades 9-12) 6,641 22.2       Born outside United States 3,350 3.1
College or graduate school 6,921 23.1   Foreign born 4,668 4.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,537 1.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 2,518 2.3
  Population 25 years and over 71,242 100.0       Not a citizen 2,150 2.0
Less than 9th grade 5,047 7.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 9,488 13.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 25,420 35.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 4,668 100.0
Some college, no degree 13,146 18.5   Europe 1,900 40.7
Associate degree 4,629 6.5   Asia 626 13.4
Bachelor's degree 7,973 11.2   Africa 63 1.3
Graduate or professional degree 5,539 7.8   Oceania 19 0.4
        Latin America 1,225 26.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 79.6 (X)   Northern America 835 17.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 19.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 102,452 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 86,386 100.0   English only 90,483 88.3
Never married 22,774 26.4   Language other than English 11,969 11.7
Now married, except separated 47,309 54.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 3,973 3.9
Separated 1,637 1.9   Spanish 6,034 5.9
Widowed 5,435 6.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2,395 2.3
 Female 4,436 5.1   Other Indo-European languages 5,052 4.9
Divorced 9,231 10.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,230 1.2
 Female 5,201 6.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 529 0.5
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 271 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 109,091 100.0
           under 18 years 1,588 100.0     Total ancestries reported 133,490 122.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 586 36.9   Arab 410 0.4
        Czech¹ 643 0.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 253 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 81,538 100.0   Dutch 1,228 1.1
Civilian veterans 11,486 14.1   English 14,080 12.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 22,027 20.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 12,760 11.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 9,771 9.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 25,799 100.0   Greek 594 0.5
With a disability 2,517 9.8   Hungarian 709 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 62,449 100.0   Irish¹ 16,941 15.5
With a disability 11,932 19.1   Italian 10,010 9.2
 Percent employed 61.6 (X)   Lithuanian 774 0.7
No disability 50,517 80.9   Norwegian 653 0.6
 Percent employed 82.9 (X)   Polish 10,084 9.2
     Population 65 years and over 12,426 100.0   Portuguese 1,106 1.0
With a disability 4,945 39.8   Russian 1,199 1.1
        Scotch-Irish 1,514 1.4
        Scottish 2,425 2.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 416 0.4
  Population 5 years and over 102,452 100.0   Subsaharan African 196 0.2
Same house in 1995 60,376 58.9   Swedish 2,499 2.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 40,343 39.4   Swiss 195 0.2
 Same county 23,978 23.4   Ukrainian 834 0.8
 Different county 16,365 16.0   United States or American 3,772 3.5
  Same state 8,695 8.5   Welsh 539 0.5
  Different state 7,670 7.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 317 0.3
Elsewhere in 1995 1,733 1.7   Other ancestries 17,541 16.1
 
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.
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