Fair Lawn, NJ

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:3422470, place: Fair Lawn borough, New Jersey)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 7,765 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 628 (8.09%)
Kindergarten: 353 (4.55%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 3,312 (42.65%)
High school (grades 9-12): 1,820 (23.44%)
College or graduate school: 1,652 (21.27%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 22,452 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 742 (3.3%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 1,525 (6.79%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 5,312 (23.66%)
Some college, no degree: 3,567 (15.89%)
Associate degree: 1,244 (5.54%)
Bachelor's degree: 6,119 (27.25%)
Graduate or professional degree: 3,943 (17.56%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 89.9%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 44.8%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 25,676 (100%)
Never married: 5,631 (21.93%)
Now married, except separated: 15,931 (62.05%)
Separated: 268 (1.04%)
Total Widowed: 2,321 (9.04%)
Widowed Female: 1,875 (7.3%)
Total Divorced: 1,525 (5.94%)
Divorced Female: 909 (3.54%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 411 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 13 (3.16%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 24,430 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 2,600 (10.64%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 6,436 (100%)
--With a disability: 379 (5.89%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 17,575 (100%)
--With a disability: 2,495 (14.2%)
----Percent employed: 73.1%
--No disability: 15,080 (85.8%)
----Percent employed: 81.4%
Population 65 years and over: 5,783 (100%)
--With a disability: 2,031 (35.12%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 29,933 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 20,804 (69.5%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 7,874 (26.31%)
--Same county: 4,205 (14.05%)
--Different county: 3,669 (12.26%)
----Same state: 1,626 (5.43%)
----Different state: 2,043 (6.83%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 1,255 (4.19%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 31,637 (100%)
Native: 23,161 (73.21%)
--Born in United States: 22,860 (100%)
----State of residence: 14,248 (45.04%)
----Different state: 8,612 (27.22%)
--Born outside United States: 301 (0.95%)
Foreign born: 8,476 (26.79%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 3,276 (10.35%)
--Naturalized citizen: 5,440 (17.2%)
--Not a citizen: 3,036 (9.6%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 8,476 (100%)
Europe: 4,868 (57.43%)
Asia: 2,615 (30.85%)
Africa: 75 (0.88%)
Oceania: 27 (0.32%)
Latin America: 783 (9.24%)
Northern America: 108 (1.27%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 29,933 (100%)
English only: 20,256 (67.67%)
Language other than English: 9,677 (32.33%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 3,350 (11.19%)
--Spanish: 1,369 (4.57%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 460 (1.54%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 5,712 (19.08%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 2,335 (7.8%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 973 (3.25%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 277 (0.93%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 31,637 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 36,494% (115.35%)
Arab: 272 (0.86%)
Czech: 165 (0.52%)
Danish: 13 (0.04%)
Dutch: 763 (2.41%)
English: 1,269 (4.01%)
French (except Basque): 475 (1.5%)
French Canadian: 78 (0.25%)
German: 3,158 (9.98%)
Greek: 380 (1.2%)
Hungarian: 681 (2.15%)
Irish: 3,165 (10%)
Italian: 6,228 (19.69%)
Lithuanian: 277 (0.88%)
Norwegian: 97 (0.31%)
Polish: 3,125 (9.88%)
Portuguese: 113 (0.36%)
Russian: 3,699 (11.69%)
Scotch-Irish: 172 (0.54%)
Scottish: 288 (0.91%)
Slovak: 52 (0.16%)
Subsaharan African: 31 (0.1%)
Swedish: 226 (0.71%)
Swiss: 109 (0.34%)
Ukrainian: 898 (2.84%)
United States or American: 1,647 (5.21%)
Welsh: 23 (0.07%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 55 (0.17%)
Other ancestries: 9,035 (28.56%)

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