DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Providence township
[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 3,454 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,035 100.0   Native 3,426 99.2
Nursery school, preschool 52 5.0       Born in United States 3,418 99.0
Kindergarten 39 3.8           State of residence 3,006 87.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 458 44.3           Different state 412 11.9
High school (grades 9-12) 290 28.0       Born outside United States 8 0.2
College or graduate school 196 18.9   Foreign born 28 0.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 20 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 28 0.8
  Population 25 years and over 2,213 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 35 1.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 185 8.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 921 41.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 28 100.0
Some college, no degree 395 17.8   Europe 13 46.4
Associate degree 263 11.9   Asia 3 10.7
Bachelor's degree 304 13.7   Africa 7 25.0
Graduate or professional degree 110 5.0   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 90.1 (X)   Northern America 5 17.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 18.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,229 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,644 100.0   English only 3,133 97.0
Never married 487 18.4   Language other than English 96 3.0
Now married, except separated 1,859 70.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 25 0.8
Separated 6 0.2   Spanish 41 1.3
Widowed 132 5.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 17 0.5
 Female 109 4.1   Other Indo-European languages 52 1.6
Divorced 160 6.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.2
 Female 56 2.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 3 0.1
                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 3,454 100.0
           under 18 years 36 100.0     Total ancestries reported 3,735 108.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 23 63.9   Arab 6 0.2
        Czech¹ 40 1.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,445 100.0   Dutch 109 3.2
Civilian veterans 295 12.1   English 407 11.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 194 5.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 24 0.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,308 37.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 885 100.0   Greek 9 0.3
With a disability 71 8.0   Hungarian 37 1.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,058 100.0   Irish¹ 404 11.7
With a disability 338 16.4   Italian 102 3.0
 Percent employed 66.3 (X)   Lithuanian 21 0.6
No disability 1,720 83.6   Norwegian 9 0.3
 Percent employed 83.1 (X)   Polish 245 7.1
     Population 65 years and over 286 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 134 46.9   Russian 13 0.4
        Scotch-Irish 46 1.3
        Scottish 48 1.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 6 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 3,229 100.0   Subsaharan African 7 0.2
Same house in 1995 2,045 63.3   Swedish 12 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,184 36.7   Swiss 60 1.7
 Same county 770 23.8   Ukrainian 8 0.2
 Different county 414 12.8   United States or American 358 10.4
  Same state 258 8.0   Welsh 12 0.3
  Different state 156 4.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 250 7.2
 
Date: August 27, 2004
 
-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.