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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Morris 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 6,104 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,419 100.0   Native 6,014 98.5
Nursery school, preschool 84 5.9       Born in United States 5,968 97.8
Kindergarten 80 5.6           State of residence 4,609 75.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 740 52.1           Different state 1,359 22.3
High school (grades 9-12) 382 26.9       Born outside United States 46 0.8
College or graduate school 133 9.4   Foreign born 90 1.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 36 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 33 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 4,224 100.0       Not a citizen 57 0.9
Less than 9th grade 230 5.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 415 9.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,723 40.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 90 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,047 24.8   Europe 17 18.9
Associate degree 133 3.1   Asia 11 12.2
Bachelor's degree 409 9.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 267 6.3   Oceania 1 1.1
        Latin America 60 66.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 84.7 (X)   Northern America 1 1.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 16.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 5,760 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,857 100.0   English only 5,557 96.5
Never married 700 14.4   Language other than English 203 3.5
Now married, except separated 3,269 67.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 52 0.9
Separated 53 1.1   Spanish 101 1.8
Widowed 398 8.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 35 0.6
 Female 342 7.0   Other Indo-European languages 91 1.6
Divorced 437 9.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 17 0.3
 Female 229 4.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 9 0.2
                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 6,104 100.0
           under 18 years 37 100.0     Total ancestries reported 5,525 90.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 18 48.6   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 27 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 27 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,554 100.0   Dutch 98 1.6
Civilian veterans 776 17.0   English 737 12.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 246 4.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 27 0.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,511 24.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,361 100.0   Greek 2 0.0
With a disability 112 8.2   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,092 100.0   Irish¹ 461 7.6
With a disability 446 14.4   Italian 64 1.0
 Percent employed 57.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 2,646 85.6   Norwegian 37 0.6
 Percent employed 84.6 (X)   Polish 16 0.3
     Population 65 years and over 1,214 100.0   Portuguese 4 0.1
With a disability 446 36.7   Russian 11 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 136 2.2
        Scottish 103 1.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 5,760 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 3,559 61.8   Swedish 318 5.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,186 38.0   Swiss 55 0.9
 Same county 1,169 20.3   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 1,017 17.7   United States or American 871 14.3
  Same state 679 11.8   Welsh 58 1.0
  Different state 338 5.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 5 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 15 0.3   Other ancestries 711 11.6
 
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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