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DP2:Social Characteristics:1990


Subject

Number

URBAN AND RURAL RESIDENCE

 

Total population

2,540

Urban population

2,540

Rural population

0

Farm population

0
   

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

Persons 3 years and over enrolled in school

554

Preprimary school

32

Elementary or high school

313

Percent in private school

0.0

College

209
   

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

Persons 25 years and over

1,844

Less than 9th grade

329

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

319

High school graduate

329

Some college, no degree

334

Associate degree

125

Bachelor's degree

254

Graduate or professional degree

154
   

Percent high school graduate or higher

64.9

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

22.1
   

RESIDENCE IN 1985

 

Persons 5 years and over

2,471

Lived in same house

1,457

Lived in different house in U.S.

1,014

Same state

890

Same county

457

Different county

433

Different state

124

Lived abroad

0
   

DISABILITY OF CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS

 

Persons 16 to 64 years

1,512

With a mobility or self-care limitation

84

With a mobility limitation

55

With a self-care limitation

59

With a work disability

118

In labor force

41

Prevented from working

62
   

Persons 65 years and over

367

With a mobility or self-care limitation

71

With a mobility limitation

65

With a self-care limitation

43
   

CHILDREN EVER BORN PER 1,000 WOMEN

 

Women 15 to 24 years

152

Women 25 to 34 years

852

Women 35 to 44 years

1,621
   

VETERAN STATUS

 

Civilian veterans 16 years and over

263

65 years and over

94
   

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

Total population

2,540

Native population

2,522

Percent born in state of residence

83.1

Foreign-born population

18

Entered the U.S. 1980 to 1990

7
   

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

Persons 5 years and over

2,471

Speak a language other than English

54

Do not speak English "very well"

16

Speak Spanish

9

Do not speak English "very well"

9

Speak Asian or Pacific Island language

0

Do not speak English "very well"

0
   

ANCESTRY

 

Total ancestries reported

2,315

Arab

0

Austrian

0

Belgian

0

Canadian

9

Czech

0

Danish

0

Dutch

72

English

464

Finnish

0

French (except Basque)

51

French Canadian

14

German

403

Greek

33

Hungarian

6

Irish

344

Italian

17

Lithuanian

0

Norwegian

19

Polish

8

Portuguese

0

Romanian

0

Russian

11

Scotch-Irish

227

Scottish

46

Slovak

0

Subsaharan African

4

Swedish

14

Swiss

0

Ukrainian

0

United States or American

279

Welsh

22

West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)

0

Yugoslavian

0

Other ancestries

272
   
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census1990.
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