Dover Base Housing, DE

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General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:1021387, place: Dover Base Housing CDP, Delaware)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 1,145 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 100 (8.73%)
Kindergarten: 59 (5.15%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 570 (49.78%)
High school (grades 9-12): 114 (9.96%)
College or graduate school: 302 (26.38%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,504 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 6 (0.4%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 30 (1.99%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 271 (18.02%)
Some college, no degree: 587 (39.03%)
Associate degree: 274 (18.22%)
Bachelor's degree: 233 (15.49%)
Graduate or professional degree: 103 (6.85%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 97.6%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 22.3%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 2,163 (100%)
Never married: 175 (8.09%)
Now married, except separated: 1,909 (88.26%)
Separated: 25 (1.16%)
Total Widowed: 0 (0%)
Widowed Female: 0 (0%)
Total Divorced: 54 (2.5%)
Divorced Female: 34 (1.57%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 17 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 0 (0%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,205 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 301 (24.98%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 896 (100%)
--With a disability: 107 (11.94%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,118 (100%)
--With a disability: 64 (5.72%)
----Percent employed: 53.1%
--No disability: 1,054 (94.28%)
----Percent employed: 55.2%
Population 65 years and over: 0
--With a disability: 0

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 2,887 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 589 (20.4%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 1,871 (64.81%)
--Same county: 358 (12.4%)
--Different county: 1,513 (52.41%)
----Same state: 7 (0.24%)
----Different state: 1,506 (52.16%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 427 (14.79%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 3,469 (100%)
Native: 3,329 (95.96%)
--Born in United States: 3,127 (100%)
----State of residence: 525 (15.13%)
----Different state: 2,602 (75.01%)
--Born outside United States: 202 (5.82%)
Foreign born: 140 (4.04%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 75 (2.16%)
--Naturalized citizen: 58 (1.67%)
--Not a citizen: 82 (2.36%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 140 (100%)
Europe: 65 (46.43%)
Asia: 25 (17.86%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 50 (35.71%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 2,887 (100%)
English only: 2,626 (90.96%)
Language other than English: 261 (9.04%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 81 (2.81%)
--Spanish: 129 (4.47%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 30 (1.04%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 98 (3.39%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 42 (1.45%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 34 (1.18%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 9 (0.31%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 3,469 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 3,685% (106.23%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 18 (0.52%)
Danish: 6 (0.17%)
Dutch: 34 (0.98%)
English: 302 (8.71%)
French (except Basque): 70 (2.02%)
French Canadian: 65 (1.87%)
German: 682 (19.66%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 44 (1.27%)
Irish: 429 (12.37%)
Italian: 128 (3.69%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 13 (0.37%)
Polish: 119 (3.43%)
Portuguese: 21 (0.61%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 56 (1.61%)
Scottish: 69 (1.99%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 25 (0.72%)
Swedish: 20 (0.58%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 6 (0.17%)
United States or American: 334 (9.63%)
Welsh: 7 (0.2%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 62 (1.79%)
Other ancestries: 1,175 (33.87%)

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