DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Spencer 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 1,773 100.0
      enrolled in school 513 100.0   Native 1,746 98.5
Nursery school, preschool 35 6.8       Born in United States 1,733 97.7
Kindergarten 43 8.4           State of residence 1,391 78.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 255 49.7           Different state 342 19.3
High school (grades 9-12) 144 28.1       Born outside United States 13 0.7
College or graduate school 36 7.0   Foreign born 27 1.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 5 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 27 1.5
  Population 25 years and over 1,107 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 85 7.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 219 19.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 387 35.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 27 100.0
Some college, no degree 197 17.8   Europe 5 18.5
Associate degree 103 9.3   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 89 8.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 27 2.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 22 81.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 72.5 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,657 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,349 100.0   English only 1,568 94.6
Never married 368 27.3   Language other than English 89 5.4
Now married, except separated 715 53.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 15 0.9
Separated 17 1.3   Spanish 56 3.4
Widowed 49 3.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 15 0.9
 Female 27 2.0   Other Indo-European languages 33 2.0
Divorced 200 14.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 66 4.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                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 1,773 100.0
           under 18 years 57 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,047 115.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 22 38.6   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 19 1.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,224 100.0   Dutch 30 1.7
Civilian veterans 176 14.4   English 171 9.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 98 5.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 557 31.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 502 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 39 7.8   Hungarian 21 1.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 945 100.0   Irish¹ 228 12.9
With a disability 290 30.7   Italian 78 4.4
 Percent employed 57.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 655 69.3   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 75.4 (X)   Polish 132 7.4
     Population 65 years and over 210 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 83 39.5   Russian 8 0.5
        Scotch-Irish 5 0.3
        Scottish 32 1.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,657 100.0   Subsaharan African 18 1.0
Same house in 1995 1,059 63.9   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 598 36.1   Swiss 4 0.2
 Same county 495 29.9   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 103 6.2   United States or American 56 3.2
  Same state 38 2.3   Welsh 9 0.5
  Different state 65 3.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 581 32.8
 
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.