Ferndale, PA

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4225680, place: Ferndale borough, Pennsylvania)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 433 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 56 (12.93%)
Kindergarten: 14 (3.23%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 171 (39.49%)
High school (grades 9-12): 101 (23.33%)
College or graduate school: 91 (21.02%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,308 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 21 (1.61%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 85 (6.5%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 667 (50.99%)
Some college, no degree: 271 (20.72%)
Associate degree: 94 (7.19%)
Bachelor's degree: 101 (7.72%)
Graduate or professional degree: 69 (5.28%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 91.9%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 13%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,518 (100%)
Never married: 363 (23.91%)
Now married, except separated: 896 (59.03%)
Separated: 31 (2.04%)
Total Widowed: 130 (8.56%)
Widowed Female: 111 (7.31%)
Total Divorced: 98 (6.46%)
Divorced Female: 50 (3.29%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 19 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 16 (84.21%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,436 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 233 (16.23%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 351 (100%)
--With a disability: 5 (1.42%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,045 (100%)
--With a disability: 75 (7.18%)
----Percent employed: 33.3%
--No disability: 970 (92.82%)
----Percent employed: 78.8%
Population 65 years and over: 337 (100%)
--With a disability: 141 (41.84%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,733 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 1,292 (74.55%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 425 (24.52%)
--Same county: 280 (16.16%)
--Different county: 145 (8.37%)
----Same state: 89 (5.14%)
----Different state: 56 (3.23%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 16 (0.92%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,834 (100%)
Native: 1,806 (98.47%)
--Born in United States: 1,803 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,707 (93.08%)
----Different state: 96 (5.23%)
--Born outside United States: 3 (0.16%)
Foreign born: 28 (1.53%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 16 (0.87%)
--Naturalized citizen: 12 (0.65%)
--Not a citizen: 16 (0.87%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 28 (100%)
Europe: 20 (71.43%)
Asia: 8 (28.57%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 0 (0%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,733 (100%)
English only: 1,662 (95.9%)
Language other than English: 71 (4.1%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 33 (1.9%)
--Spanish: 14 (0.81%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 7 (0.4%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 49 (2.83%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 22 (1.27%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 8 (0.46%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 4 (0.23%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,834 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,059% (112.27%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 27 (1.47%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 48 (2.62%)
English: 179 (9.76%)
French (except Basque): 20 (1.09%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 594 (32.39%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 19 (1.04%)
Irish: 223 (12.16%)
Italian: 188 (10.25%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 159 (8.67%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 28 (1.53%)
Scotch-Irish: 54 (2.94%)
Scottish: 44 (2.4%)
Slovak: 90 (4.91%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 11 (0.6%)
Swiss: 12 (0.65%)
Ukrainian: 50 (2.73%)
United States or American: 121 (6.6%)
Welsh: 38 (2.07%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 154 (8.4%)

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