Fairmount Heights, MD

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:2427400, place: Fairmount Heights town, Maryland)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 433 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 17 (3.93%)
Kindergarten: 25 (5.77%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 217 (50.12%)
High school (grades 9-12): 108 (24.94%)
College or graduate school: 66 (15.24%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 959 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 56 (5.84%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 176 (18.35%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 335 (34.93%)
Some college, no degree: 236 (24.61%)
Associate degree: 53 (5.53%)
Bachelor's degree: 73 (7.61%)
Graduate or professional degree: 30 (3.13%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 75.8%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 10.7%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,149 (100%)
Never married: 439 (38.21%)
Now married, except separated: 401 (34.9%)
Separated: 59 (5.13%)
Total Widowed: 86 (7.48%)
Widowed Female: 70 (6.09%)
Total Divorced: 164 (14.27%)
Divorced Female: 110 (9.57%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 83 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 48 (57.83%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,072 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 144 (13.43%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 391 (100%)
--With a disability: 40 (10.23%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 839 (100%)
--With a disability: 193 (23%)
----Percent employed: 61.7%
--No disability: 646 (77%)
----Percent employed: 74.9%
Population 65 years and over: 173 (100%)
--With a disability: 93 (53.76%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,405 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 877 (62.42%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 522 (37.15%)
--Same county: 316 (22.49%)
--Different county: 206 (14.66%)
----Same state: 17 (1.21%)
----Different state: 189 (13.45%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 6 (0.43%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,512 (100%)
Native: 1,475 (97.55%)
--Born in United States: 1,463 (100%)
----State of residence: 385 (25.46%)
----Different state: 1,078 (71.3%)
--Born outside United States: 12 (0.79%)
Foreign born: 37 (2.45%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 10 (0.66%)
--Naturalized citizen: 14 (0.93%)
--Not a citizen: 23 (1.52%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 37 (100%)
Europe: 2 (5.41%)
Asia: 0 (0%)
Africa: 10 (27.03%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 25 (67.57%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,405 (100%)
English only: 1,346 (95.8%)
Language other than English: 59 (4.2%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 14 (1%)
--Spanish: 38 (2.7%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 7 (0.5%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 17 (1.21%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 5 (0.36%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,512 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,364% (90.21%)
Arab: 5 (0.33%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 0 (0%)
English: 1 (0.07%)
French (except Basque): 0 (0%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 7 (0.46%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 3 (0.2%)
Italian: 8 (0.53%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 0 (0%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 0 (0%)
Scottish: 2 (0.13%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 17 (1.12%)
Swedish: 0 (0%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 25 (1.65%)
Welsh: 4 (0.26%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 24 (1.59%)
Other ancestries: 1,268 (83.86%)

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