DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Washington 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 3,626 100.0
      enrolled in school 944 100.0   Native 3,537 97.5
Nursery school, preschool 50 5.3       Born in United States 3,519 97.0
Kindergarten 61 6.5           State of residence 3,096 85.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 395 41.8           Different state 423 11.7
High school (grades 9-12) 212 22.5       Born outside United States 18 0.5
College or graduate school 226 23.9   Foreign born 89 2.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 68 1.9
  Population 25 years and over 2,457 100.0       Not a citizen 21 0.6
Less than 9th grade 58 2.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 340 13.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,183 48.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 89 100.0
Some college, no degree 491 20.0   Europe 16 18.0
Associate degree 155 6.3   Asia 22 24.7
Bachelor's degree 151 6.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 79 3.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 9 10.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 83.8 (X)   Northern America 42 47.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 9.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,436 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,950 100.0   English only 3,325 96.8
Never married 659 22.3   Language other than English 111 3.2
Now married, except separated 1,582 53.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 64 1.9
Separated 71 2.4   Spanish 27 0.8
Widowed 252 8.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 21 0.6
 Female 224 7.6   Other Indo-European languages 84 2.4
Divorced 386 13.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 43 1.3
 Female 268 9.1   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 3,626 100.0
           under 18 years 66 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,212 116.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 33 50.0   Arab 33 0.9
        Czech¹ 34 0.9
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 26 0.7
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,773 100.0   Dutch 22 0.6
Civilian veterans 364 13.1   English 395 10.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 264 7.3
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 37 1.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,261 34.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 793 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 57 7.2   Hungarian 98 2.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,063 100.0   Irish¹ 513 14.1
With a disability 361 17.5   Italian 134 3.7
 Percent employed 65.9 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,702 82.5   Norwegian 8 0.2
 Percent employed 80.1 (X)   Polish 690 19.0
     Population 65 years and over 451 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 216 47.9   Russian 15 0.4
        Scotch-Irish 13 0.4
        Scottish 18 0.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 16 0.4
  Population 5 years and over 3,436 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,409 70.1   Swedish 10 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,027 29.9   Swiss 19 0.5
 Same county 846 24.6   Ukrainian 6 0.2
 Different county 181 5.3   United States or American 204 5.6
  Same state 77 2.2   Welsh 61 1.7
  Different state 104 3.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 335 9.2
 
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.