Bellefonte, DE

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General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:1004650, place: Bellefonte town, Delaware)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 301 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 35 (11.63%)
Kindergarten: 26 (8.64%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 133 (44.19%)
High school (grades 9-12): 63 (20.93%)
College or graduate school: 44 (14.62%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 902 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 36 (3.99%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 100 (11.09%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 265 (29.38%)
Some college, no degree: 185 (20.51%)
Associate degree: 82 (9.09%)
Bachelor's degree: 168 (18.63%)
Graduate or professional degree: 66 (7.32%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 84.9%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 25.9%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,003 (100%)
Never married: 253 (25.22%)
Now married, except separated: 514 (51.25%)
Separated: 29 (2.89%)
Total Widowed: 88 (8.77%)
Widowed Female: 73 (7.28%)
Total Divorced: 119 (11.86%)
Divorced Female: 73 (7.28%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 13 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 9 (69.23%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 957 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 139 (14.52%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 242 (100%)
--With a disability: 13 (5.37%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 733 (100%)
--With a disability: 91 (12.41%)
----Percent employed: 65.9%
--No disability: 642 (87.59%)
----Percent employed: 86.9%
Population 65 years and over: 194 (100%)
--With a disability: 101 (52.06%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,172 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 818 (69.8%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 347 (29.61%)
--Same county: 231 (19.71%)
--Different county: 116 (9.9%)
----Same state: 21 (1.79%)
----Different state: 95 (8.11%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 7 (0.6%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,249 (100%)
Native: 1,218 (97.52%)
--Born in United States: 1,205 (100%)
----State of residence: 741 (59.33%)
----Different state: 464 (37.15%)
--Born outside United States: 13 (1.04%)
Foreign born: 31 (2.48%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 2 (0.16%)
--Naturalized citizen: 23 (1.84%)
--Not a citizen: 8 (0.64%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 31 (100%)
Europe: 28 (90.32%)
Asia: 3 (9.68%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 0 (0%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,172 (100%)
English only: 1,118 (95.39%)
Language other than English: 54 (4.61%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 17 (1.45%)
--Spanish: 17 (1.45%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 4 (0.34%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 37 (3.16%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 13 (1.11%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,249 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,571% (125.78%)
Arab: 4 (0.32%)
Czech: 1 (0.08%)
Danish: 4 (0.32%)
Dutch: 47 (3.76%)
English: 250 (20.02%)
French (except Basque): 36 (2.88%)
French Canadian: 11 (0.88%)
German: 294 (23.54%)
Greek: 7 (0.56%)
Hungarian: 5 (0.4%)
Irish: 358 (28.66%)
Italian: 168 (13.45%)
Lithuanian: 10 (0.8%)
Norwegian: 20 (1.6%)
Polish: 59 (4.72%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 21 (1.68%)
Scotch-Irish: 35 (2.8%)
Scottish: 37 (2.96%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 26 (2.08%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 43 (3.44%)
United States or American: 50 (4%)
Welsh: 6 (0.48%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 79 (6.33%)

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