Brooklyn, IN

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General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:1808038, place: Brooklyn town, Indiana)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 380 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 30 (7.89%)
Kindergarten: 21 (5.53%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 162 (42.63%)
High school (grades 9-12): 86 (22.63%)
College or graduate school: 81 (21.32%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 966 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 63 (6.52%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 163 (16.87%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 459 (47.52%)
Some college, no degree: 156 (16.15%)
Associate degree: 45 (4.66%)
Bachelor's degree: 59 (6.11%)
Graduate or professional degree: 21 (2.17%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 76.6%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 8.3%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,200 (100%)
Never married: 245 (20.42%)
Now married, except separated: 735 (61.25%)
Separated: 17 (1.42%)
Total Widowed: 76 (6.33%)
Widowed Female: 67 (5.58%)
Total Divorced: 127 (10.58%)
Divorced Female: 61 (5.08%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 45 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 25 (55.56%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,142 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 155 (13.57%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 339 (100%)
--With a disability: 53 (15.63%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 941 (100%)
--With a disability: 279 (29.65%)
----Percent employed: 75.6%
--No disability: 662 (70.35%)
----Percent employed: 79.9%
Population 65 years and over: 131 (100%)
--With a disability: 64 (48.85%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,413 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 710 (50.25%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 693 (49.04%)
--Same county: 256 (18.12%)
--Different county: 437 (30.93%)
----Same state: 351 (24.84%)
----Different state: 86 (6.09%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 10 (0.71%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,572 (100%)
Native: 1,562 (99.36%)
--Born in United States: 1,557 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,201 (76.4%)
----Different state: 356 (22.65%)
--Born outside United States: 5 (0.32%)
Foreign born: 10 (0.64%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 8 (0.51%)
--Naturalized citizen: 4 (0.25%)
--Not a citizen: 6 (0.38%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 10 (100%)
Europe: 2 (20%)
Asia: 0 (0%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 8 (80%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,413 (100%)
English only: 1,385 (98.02%)
Language other than English: 28 (1.98%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 14 (0.99%)
--Spanish: 25 (1.77%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 14 (0.99%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 3 (0.21%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,572 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,206% (76.72%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 2 (0.13%)
Danish: 4 (0.25%)
Dutch: 34 (2.16%)
English: 149 (9.48%)
French (except Basque): 18 (1.15%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 304 (19.34%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 2 (0.13%)
Irish: 166 (10.56%)
Italian: 17 (1.08%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 14 (0.89%)
Portuguese: 1 (0.06%)
Russian: 2 (0.13%)
Scotch-Irish: 26 (1.65%)
Scottish: 13 (0.83%)
Slovak: 1 (0.06%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 9 (0.57%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 220 (13.99%)
Welsh: 11 (0.7%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 213 (13.55%)

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