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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: New Haven city, Connecticut

NOTE: Corrected counts are available for one or more geographies displayed in this table.
NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Subject

Number

Percent

 

 

 

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

 

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school

43,375

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

1,982

4.6

Kindergarten

1,623

3.7

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

15,233

35.1

High school (grades 9-12)

7,422

17.1

College or graduate school

17,115

39.5

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

72,171

100.0

Less than 9th grade

6,691

9.3

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

12,384

17.2

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

20,350

28.2

Some college, no degree

10,456

14.5

Associate degree

2,720

3.8

Bachelor's degree

8,566

11.9

Graduate or professional degree

11,004

15.2

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

73.6

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

27.1

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

96,986

100.0

Never married

43,620

45.0

Now married, except separated

34,617

35.7

Separated

3,052

3.1

Widowed

6,286

6.5

Female

4,968

5.1

Divorced

9,411

9.7

Female

5,671

5.8

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years

2,988

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

1,641

54.9

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

92,263

100.0

Civilian veterans

6,896

7.5

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

31,655

100.0

With a disability

3,315

10.5

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

68,911

100.0

With a disability

16,595

24.1

Percent employed

47.0

(X)

No disability

52,316

75.9

Percent employed

68.0

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

11,876

100.0

With a disability

5,334

44.9

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

115,106

100.0

Same house in 1995

50,785

44.1

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

56,543

49.1

Same county

36,982

32.1

Different county

19,561

17.0

Same state

3,523

3.1

Different state

16,038

13.9

Elsewhere in 1995

7,778

6.8

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

123,626

100.0

Native

109,276

88.4

Born in United States

99,164

80.2

State of residence

62,712

50.7

Different state

36,452

29.5

Born outside United States

10,112

8.2

Foreign born

14,350

11.6

Entered 1990 to March 2000

8,362

6.8

Naturalized citizen

4,727

3.8

Not a citizen

9,623

7.8

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

14,350

100.0

Europe

3,270

22.8

Asia

3,394

23.7

Africa

520

3.6

Oceania

85

0.6

Latin America

6,810

47.5

Northern America

271

1.9

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

115,106

100.0

English only

82,434

71.6

Language other than English

32,672

28.4

Speak English less than 'very well

13,985

12.1

Spanish

22,163

19.3

Speak English less than "very well"

10,285

8.9

Other Indo-European languages

6,605

5.7

Speak English less than "very well"

2,072

1.8

Asian and Pacific Island languages

3,091

2.7

Speak English less than "very well"

1,374

1.2

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

123,626

100.0

Total ancestries reported

116,751

94.4

Arab

220

0.2

Czech1

223

0.2

Danish

195

0.2

Dutch

560

0.5

English

4,214

3.4

French (except Basque)1

1,578

1.3

French Canadian1

663

0.5

German

5,056

4.1

Greek

458

0.4

Hungarian

496

0.4

Irish1

7,639

6.2

Italian

13,038

10.5

Lithuanian

222

0.2

Norwegian

407

0.3

Polish

3,232

2.6

Portuguese

545

0.4

Russian

1,822

1.5

Scotch-Irish

608

0.5

Scottish

959

0.8

Slovak

75

0.1

Subsaharan African

1,730

1.4

Swedish

757

0.6

Swiss

211

0.2

Ukrainian

513

0.4

United States or American

2,306

1.9

Welsh

307

0.2

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

2,602

2.1

Other ancestries

66,115

53.5

(X) Not applicable.
1 The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.
Ancestry Code List (PDF 35KB)
Place of Birth Code List (PDF 74KB)
Language Code List (PDF 17KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P18, P19, P21, P22, P24, P36, P37, P39, P42, PCT8, PCT16, PCT17, and PCT19



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