New Market, VA

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:5155848, place: New Market town, Virginia)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 262 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 14 (5.34%)
Kindergarten: 19 (7.25%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 126 (48.09%)
High school (grades 9-12): 62 (23.66%)
College or graduate school: 41 (15.65%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,177 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 152 (12.91%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 165 (14.02%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 346 (29.4%)
Some college, no degree: 233 (19.8%)
Associate degree: 49 (4.16%)
Bachelor's degree: 150 (12.74%)
Graduate or professional degree: 82 (6.97%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 73.1%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 19.7%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,361 (100%)
Never married: 312 (22.92%)
Now married, except separated: 712 (52.31%)
Separated: 52 (3.82%)
Total Widowed: 148 (10.87%)
Widowed Female: 134 (9.85%)
Total Divorced: 137 (10.07%)
Divorced Female: 92 (6.76%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 24 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 9 (37.5%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,312 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 177 (13.49%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 245 (100%)
--With a disability: 7 (2.86%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 886 (100%)
--With a disability: 169 (19.07%)
----Percent employed: 56.2%
--No disability: 717 (80.93%)
----Percent employed: 81.6%
Population 65 years and over: 342 (100%)
--With a disability: 148 (43.27%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,506 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 673 (44.69%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 793 (52.66%)
--Same county: 314 (20.85%)
--Different county: 479 (31.81%)
----Same state: 297 (19.72%)
----Different state: 182 (12.08%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 40 (2.66%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,599 (100%)
Native: 1,521 (95.12%)
--Born in United States: 1,485 (100%)
----State of residence: 908 (56.79%)
----Different state: 577 (36.09%)
--Born outside United States: 36 (2.25%)
Foreign born: 78 (4.88%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 51 (3.19%)
--Naturalized citizen: 25 (1.56%)
--Not a citizen: 53 (3.31%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 78 (100%)
Europe: 8 (10.26%)
Asia: 5 (6.41%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 2 (2.56%)
Latin America: 59 (75.64%)
Northern America: 4 (5.13%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,506 (100%)
English only: 1,387 (92.1%)
Language other than English: 119 (7.9%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 67 (4.45%)
--Spanish: 95 (6.31%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 64 (4.25%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 22 (1.46%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 1 (0.07%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,599 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,434% (89.68%)
Arab: 1 (0.06%)
Czech: 1 (0.06%)
Danish: 6 (0.38%)
Dutch: 16 (1%)
English: 240 (15.01%)
French (except Basque): 24 (1.5%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 349 (21.83%)
Greek: 5 (0.31%)
Hungarian: 6 (0.38%)
Irish: 151 (9.44%)
Italian: 38 (2.38%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 15 (0.94%)
Polish: 34 (2.13%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 3 (0.19%)
Scotch-Irish: 38 (2.38%)
Scottish: 36 (2.25%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 3 (0.19%)
Swiss: 2 (0.13%)
Ukrainian: 1 (0.06%)
United States or American: 254 (15.88%)
Welsh: 14 (0.88%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 197 (12.32%)

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