DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Waterville 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 9,469 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,903 100.0   Native 9,281 98.0
Nursery school, preschool 208 7.2       Born in United States 9,242 97.6
Kindergarten 142 4.9           State of residence 7,295 77.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,231 42.4           Different state 1,947 20.6
High school (grades 9-12) 738 25.4       Born outside United States 39 0.4
College or graduate school 584 20.1   Foreign born 188 2.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 63 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 121 1.3
  Population 25 years and over 6,189 100.0       Not a citizen 67 0.7
Less than 9th grade 137 2.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 312 5.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,638 26.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 188 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,408 22.8   Europe 79 42.0
Associate degree 674 10.9   Asia 58 30.9
Bachelor's degree 1,235 20.0   Africa 4 2.1
Graduate or professional degree 785 12.7   Oceania 15 8.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 92.7 (X)   Northern America 32 17.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 32.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 8,905 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 7,336 100.0   English only 8,655 97.2
Never married 1,534 20.9   Language other than English 250 2.8
Now married, except separated 4,817 65.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 58 0.7
Separated 23 0.3   Spanish 107 1.2
Widowed 468 6.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 35 0.4
 Female 402 5.5   Other Indo-European languages 103 1.2
Divorced 494 6.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 17 0.2
 Female 266 3.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 29 0.3
                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 9,469 100.0
           under 18 years 104 100.0     Total ancestries reported 11,497 121.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 26 25.0   Arab 17 0.2
        Czech¹ 51 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 22 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,816 100.0   Dutch 243 2.6
Civilian veterans 867 12.7   English 1,454 15.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 605 6.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 62 0.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,655 38.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,431 100.0   Greek 36 0.4
With a disability 177 7.3   Hungarian 219 2.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 5,220 100.0   Irish¹ 1,378 14.6
With a disability 508 9.7   Italian 391 4.1
 Percent employed 67.7 (X)   Lithuanian 26 0.3
No disability 4,712 90.3   Norwegian 44 0.5
 Percent employed 87.3 (X)   Polish 1,169 12.3
     Population 65 years and over 1,042 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 411 39.4   Russian 29 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 219 2.3
        Scottish 353 3.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 76 0.8
  Population 5 years and over 8,905 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 5,373 60.3   Swedish 92 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,506 39.4   Swiss 60 0.6
 Same county 2,666 29.9   Ukrainian 29 0.3
 Different county 840 9.4   United States or American 453 4.8
  Same state 507 5.7   Welsh 57 0.6
  Different state 333 3.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 26 0.3   Other ancestries 757 8.0
 
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.