DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Swanton 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 3,354 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,012 100.0   Native 3,284 97.9
Nursery school, preschool 76 7.5       Born in United States 3,284 97.9
Kindergarten 75 7.4           State of residence 2,803 83.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 454 44.9           Different state 481 14.3
High school (grades 9-12) 202 20.0       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 205 20.3   Foreign born 70 2.1
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 30 0.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 29 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 2,177 100.0       Not a citizen 41 1.2
Less than 9th grade 79 3.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 338 15.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 879 40.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 70 100.0
Some college, no degree 395 18.1   Europe 43 61.4
Associate degree 159 7.3   Asia 20 28.6
Bachelor's degree 202 9.3   Africa 7 10.0
Graduate or professional degree 125 5.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.8 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,173 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,634 100.0   English only 3,045 96.0
Never married 640 24.3   Language other than English 128 4.0
Now married, except separated 1,572 59.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 52 1.6
Separated 34 1.3   Spanish 56 1.8
Widowed 102 3.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 24 0.8
 Female 79 3.0   Other Indo-European languages 59 1.9
Divorced 286 10.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 28 0.9
 Female 186 7.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 13 0.4
                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 3,354 100.0
           under 18 years 90 100.0     Total ancestries reported 3,841 114.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 64 71.1   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 54 1.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,448 100.0   Dutch 172 5.1
Civilian veterans 319 13.0   English 305 9.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 160 4.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 47 1.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,326 39.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 892 100.0   Greek 24 0.7
With a disability 117 13.1   Hungarian 21 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,986 100.0   Irish¹ 425 12.7
With a disability 453 22.8   Italian 110 3.3
 Percent employed 70.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,533 77.2   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 77.2 (X)   Polish 319 9.5
     Population 65 years and over 295 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 129 43.7   Russian 31 0.9
        Scotch-Irish 57 1.7
        Scottish 23 0.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 3,173 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,254 71.0   Swedish 22 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 896 28.2   Swiss 7 0.2
 Same county 555 17.5   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 341 10.7   United States or American 256 7.6
  Same state 250 7.9   Welsh 21 0.6
  Different state 91 2.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 23 0.7   Other ancestries 461 13.7
 
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.