Shark River Hills, NJ

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:3466840, place: Shark River Hills CDP, New Jersey)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 830 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 61 (7.35%)
Kindergarten: 78 (9.4%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 273 (32.89%)
High school (grades 9-12): 201 (24.22%)
College or graduate school: 217 (26.14%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 2,852 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 69 (2.42%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 222 (7.78%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 930 (32.61%)
Some college, no degree: 487 (17.08%)
Associate degree: 199 (6.98%)
Bachelor's degree: 660 (23.14%)
Graduate or professional degree: 285 (9.99%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 89.8%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 33.1%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 3,229 (100%)
Never married: 823 (25.49%)
Now married, except separated: 1,872 (57.97%)
Separated: 18 (0.56%)
Total Widowed: 229 (7.09%)
Widowed Female: 198 (6.13%)
Total Divorced: 287 (8.89%)
Divorced Female: 216 (6.69%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 78 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 12 (15.38%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 3,068 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 420 (13.69%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 665 (100%)
--With a disability: 51 (7.67%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 2,423 (100%)
--With a disability: 231 (9.53%)
----Percent employed: 74%
--No disability: 2,192 (90.47%)
----Percent employed: 85.5%
Population 65 years and over: 534 (100%)
--With a disability: 166 (31.09%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 3,622 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 2,708 (74.77%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 895 (24.71%)
--Same county: 742 (20.49%)
--Different county: 153 (4.22%)
----Same state: 109 (3.01%)
----Different state: 44 (1.21%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 19 (0.52%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 3,844 (100%)
Native: 3,692 (96.05%)
--Born in United States: 3,679 (100%)
----State of residence: 3,128 (81.37%)
----Different state: 551 (14.33%)
--Born outside United States: 13 (0.34%)
Foreign born: 152 (3.95%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 10 (0.26%)
--Naturalized citizen: 125 (3.25%)
--Not a citizen: 27 (0.7%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 152 (100%)
Europe: 56 (36.84%)
Asia: 68 (44.74%)
Africa: 7 (4.61%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 16 (10.53%)
Northern America: 5 (3.29%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 3,622 (100%)
English only: 3,421 (94.45%)
Language other than English: 201 (5.55%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 67 (1.85%)
--Spanish: 50 (1.38%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 15 (0.41%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 90 (2.48%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 22 (0.61%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 37 (1.02%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 13 (0.36%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 3,844 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 5,260% (136.84%)
Arab: 24 (0.62%)
Czech: 32 (0.83%)
Danish: 4 (0.1%)
Dutch: 170 (4.42%)
English: 595 (15.48%)
French (except Basque): 212 (5.52%)
French Canadian: 12 (0.31%)
German: 895 (23.28%)
Greek: 16 (0.42%)
Hungarian: 37 (0.96%)
Irish: 943 (24.53%)
Italian: 1,001 (26.04%)
Lithuanian: 12 (0.31%)
Norwegian: 29 (0.75%)
Polish: 393 (10.22%)
Portuguese: 18 (0.47%)
Russian: 70 (1.82%)
Scotch-Irish: 51 (1.33%)
Scottish: 121 (3.15%)
Slovak: 11 (0.29%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 46 (1.2%)
Swiss: 9 (0.23%)
Ukrainian: 42 (1.09%)
United States or American: 158 (4.11%)
Welsh: 22 (0.57%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 27 (0.7%)
Other ancestries: 310 (8.06%)

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