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 | 44,216 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,936 | 100.0 | Native | 42,858 | 96.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 611 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 42,416 | 95.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 549 | 5.0 | State of residence | 20,154 | 45.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,982 | 45.6 | Different state | 22,262 | 50.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,649 | 24.2 | Born outside United States | 442 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,145 | 19.6 | Foreign born | 1,358 | 3.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 356 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 841 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 30,542 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 517 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,183 | 3.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,708 | 8.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,977 | 32.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,358 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,519 | 18.1 | Europe | 600 | 44.2 | |
| Associate degree | 1,840 | 6.0 | Asia | 259 | 19.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,522 | 18.1 | Africa | 67 | 4.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,793 | 12.4 | Oceania | 30 | 2.2 | |
| Latin America | 163 | 12.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.3 | (X) | Northern America | 239 | 17.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 30.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 41,885 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 35,773 | 100.0 | English only | 39,916 | 95.3 | |
| Never married | 9,370 | 26.2 | Language other than English | 1,969 | 4.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 19,194 | 53.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 429 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 579 | 1.6 | Spanish | 536 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 2,385 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 117 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,969 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,184 | 2.8 | |
| Divorced | 4,245 | 11.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 244 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 2,377 | 6.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 194 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 57 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 44,216 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 463 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 51,468 | 116.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 185 | 40.0 | Arab | 201 | 0.5 | |
| Czech� | 197 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 138 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 33,760 | 100.0 | Dutch | 857 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,891 | 14.5 | English | 9,351 | 21.1 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 5,074 | 11.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 2,219 | 5.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,798 | 10.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,752 | 100.0 | Greek | 161 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,177 | 12.1 | Hungarian | 278 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 25,914 | 100.0 | Irish� | 7,429 | 16.8 | |
| With a disability | 4,447 | 17.2 | Italian | 2,630 | 5.9 | |
| Percent employed | 58.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 243 | 0.5 | |
| No disability | 21,467 | 82.8 | Norwegian | 457 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 84.6 | (X) | Polish | 2,198 | 5.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,840 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 219 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 2,250 | 38.5 | Russian | 802 | 1.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 924 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 2,034 | 4.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 76 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 41,885 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 59 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 25,088 | 59.9 | Swedish | 1,038 | 2.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,312 | 38.9 | Swiss | 273 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 8,846 | 21.1 | Ukrainian | 198 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 7,466 | 17.8 | United States or American | 3,179 | 7.2 | |
| Same state | 1,575 | 3.8 | Welsh | 547 | 1.2 | |
| Different state | 5,891 | 14.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 485 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 5,871 | 13.3 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| � 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 Communication System (ECS), Division of Health Communication and Marketing (DHCM), National Center for Health Marketing (NCHM)
