Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000
Geographic area: Westerly town, Washington County, Rhode Island
[For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent
Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,966 100.0 HISPANIC OR LATINO AND RACE
Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,966 100.0
SEX AND AGE Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 1.2
Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,077 48.2 Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 0.3
Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,889 51.8 Puerto Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 0.5
Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,418 6.2 Cuban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 -
5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,564 6.8 Other Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 0.3
10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,511 6.6 Not Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,696 98.8
15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,409 6.1 White alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,669 94.4
20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,106 4.8 RELATIONSHIP
25 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,941 12.8 Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,966 100.0
35 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,883 16.9 In households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,597 98.4
45 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,043 13.3 Householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,402 40.9
55 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,230 5.4 Spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,721 20.6
60 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946 4.1 Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,615 28.8
65 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,802 7.8 Own child under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,077 22.1
75 to 84 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,504 6.5 Other relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816 3.6
85 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609 2.7 Under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 1.0
Median age (years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.9 (X) Nonrelatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,043 4.5
Unmarried partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563 2.5
18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,560 76.5 In group quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 1.6
Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,297 36.1 Institutionalized population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 1.1
Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,263 40.3 Noninstitutionalized population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 0.5
21 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,872 73.5
62 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,476 19.5 HOUSEHOLD BY TYPE
65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,915 17.0 Total households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,402 100.0
Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,580 6.9 Family households (families). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,130 65.2
Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,335 10.2 With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 2,790 29.7
Married-couple family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,721 50.2
RACE With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 1,991 21.2
One race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,685 98.8 Female householder, no husband present . . . . . 1,032 11.0
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,857 95.2 With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 613 6.5
Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 0.7 Nonfamily households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,272 34.8
American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . 130 0.6 Householder living alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,727 29.0
Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 2.0 Householder 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,173 12.5
Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 0.1
Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 1.6 Households with individuals under 18 years . . . . . 2,962 31.5
Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 0.1 Households with individuals 65 years and over . . 2,696 28.7
Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 -
Average household size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.40 (X)
Korean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 0.1
Average family size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.98 (X)
Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 -
Other Asian 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 0.1
HOUSING OCCUPANCY
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . - -
Total housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,292 100.0
Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - -
Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,402 83.3
Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - -
Vacant housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,890 16.7
Samoan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - -
For seasonal, recreational, or
Other Pacific Islander 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - occasional use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,404 12.4
Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 0.3
Two or more races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 1.2 Homeowner vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 (X)
Rental vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 (X)
Race alone or in combination with one
or more other races: 3 HOUSING TENURE
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,116 96.3 Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,402 100.0
Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 1.1 Owner-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,994 63.8
American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 1.0 Renter-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,408 36.2
Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512 2.2
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . . . 7 - Average household size of owner-occupied units. 2.57 (X)
Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 0.7 Average household size of renter-occupied units . 2.11 (X)
- Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.
1
Other Asian alone, or two or more Asian categories.
2
Other Pacific Islander alone, or two or more Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander categories.
3
In combination with one or more of the other races listed. The six numbers may add to more than the total population and the six percentages
may add to more than 100 percent because individuals may report more than one race.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000.
1
U.S. Census Bureau
Table DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic area: Westerly town, Washington County, Rhode Island
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Population 3 years and over Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,966 100.0
enrolled in school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,762 100.0 Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,508 93.7
Nursery school, preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 8.1 Born in United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,403 93.2
Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 6.4 State of residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,586 59.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,441 42.4 Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,817 34.0
High school (grades 9-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,332 23.1 Born outside United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 0.5
College or graduate school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,157 20.1 Foreign born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,458 6.3
Entered 1990 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 0.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT Naturalized citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888 3.9
Population 25 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 15,949 100.0 Not a citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570 2.5
Less than 9th grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928 5.8
9th to 12th grade, no diploma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,994 12.5 REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
High school graduate (includes equivalency). . . . . 4,784 30.0 Total (excluding born at sea). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,458 100.0
Some college, no degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,239 20.3 Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987 67.7
Associate degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,087 6.8 Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 22.7
Bachelor’s degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,386 15.0 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 3.4
Graduate or professional degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,531 9.6 Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - -
Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 3.7
Percent high school graduate or higher . . . . . . . . . 81.7 (X) Northern America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 2.5
Percent bachelor’s degree or higher . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.6 (X)
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
MARITAL STATUS Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,604 100.0
Population 15 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 18,448 100.0 English only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,022 88.0
Never married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,656 25.2 Language other than English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,582 12.0
Now married, except separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,178 55.2 Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 864 4.0
Separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 1.9 Spanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 1.1
Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,591 8.6 Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 85 0.4
Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,341 7.3 Other Indo-European languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,898 8.8
Divorced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,681 9.1 Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 552 2.6
Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945 5.1 Asian and Pacific Island languages . . . . . . . . . . . 339 1.6
Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 207 1.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Grandparent living in household with
Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,966 100.0
one or more own grandchildren under
18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 100.0 Total ancestries reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,270 123.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren . . . . . . 120 44.8 Arab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 0.3
Czech1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 0.3
VETERAN STATUS Danish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 0.2
Civilian population 18 years and over . . 17,505 100.0 Dutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 0.4
Civilian veterans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,825 16.1 English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,264 14.2
French (except Basque)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,196 9.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN French Canadian1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794 3.5
NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,057 9.0
Population 5 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,818 100.0 Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 1.1
With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 7.7 Hungarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 0.2
Irish1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,101 17.9
Population 21 to 64 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,819 100.0 Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,863 34.2
With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,916 14.9 Lithuanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 0.5
Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.9 (X) Norwegian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 0.6
No disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,903 85.1 Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,056 4.6
Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.5 (X) Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856 3.7
Population 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 3,613 100.0 Russian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 0.9
With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,349 37.3 Scotch-Irish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 1.4
Scottish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,037 4.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995 Slovak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 0.1
Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . 21,604 100.0 Subsaharan African. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 0.3
Same house in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,929 59.8 Swedish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 1.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,555 39.6 Swiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 0.2
Same county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,153 23.9 Ukrainian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 0.3
Different county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,402 15.7 United States or American. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833 3.6
Same state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520 2.4 Welsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 0.3
Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,882 13.3 West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) . . . . . . . . 44 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 0.6 Other ancestries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,163 9.4
-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.
1
The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsa-
tian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.
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U.S. Census Bureau
Table DP-3. Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics: 2000
Geographic area: Westerly town, Washington County, Rhode Island
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent
EMPLOYMENT STATUS INCOME IN 1999
Population 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,124 100.0 Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,409 100.0
In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,896 65.6 Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573 6.1
Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,820 65.2 $10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735 7.8
Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,214 61.9 $15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,043 11.1
Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 3.3 $25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,273 13.5
Percent of civilian labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 (X) $35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,667 17.7
Armed Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 0.4 $50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,954 20.8
Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,228 34.4 $75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,132 12.0
Females 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,531 100.0 $100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690 7.3
In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,487 57.6 $150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 1.4
Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,487 57.6 $200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 2.2
Median household income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,613 (X)
Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,229 54.9
Own children under 6 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,738 100.0 With earnings . . . . . . . . . . .1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,197 76.5
All parents in family in labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,140 65.6 Mean earnings (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,549 (X)
With Social Security income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,902 30.8
COMMUTING TO WORK Mean Social Security income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . 11,661 (X)
Workers 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,047 100.0 With Supplemental Security Income . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 3.1
Car, truck, or van - - drove alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,129 82.6 Mean Supplemental Security Income
Car, truck, or van - - carpooled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,112 10.1 (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,341 (X)
Public transportation (including taxicab) . . . . . . . . . 366 3.3 With public assistance income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 3.0
Walked. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 1.9 Mean public assistance income (dollars)1 . . . . . 3,628 (X)
Other means. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 0.3 With retirement income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,963 20.9
Worked at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 1.7 Mean retirement income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,674 (X)
Mean travel time to work (minutes)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.6 (X)
Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,151 100.0
Employed civilian population Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 2.2
16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,214 100.0 $10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 4.5
OCCUPATION $15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 7.3
Management, professional, and related $25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821 13.3
occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,484 31.1 $35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,094 17.8
Service occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,055 18.3 $50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,505 24.5
Sales and office occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,057 27.3 $75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 968 15.7
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . 25 0.2 $100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 9.7
Construction, extraction, and maintenance $150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 2.0
occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,021 9.1 $200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 3.0
Production, transportation, and material moving Median family income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,165 (X)
occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,572 14.0
Per capita income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,092 (X)
INDUSTRY Median earnings (dollars):
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, Male full-time, year-round workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,887 (X)
and mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 0.5 Female full-time, year-round workers . . . . . . . . . . . 26,800 (X)
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785 7.0
Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,101 18.7 Number Percent
Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 1.5 below below
Retail trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,478 13.2 poverty poverty
Subject level level
Transportation and warehousing, and utilities . . . . 250 2.2
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 2.1
Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental and POVERTY STATUS IN 1999
leasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446 4.0 Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 4.3
Professional, scientific, management, adminis- With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 204 7.0
trative, and waste management services . . . . . . . 846 7.5 With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 99 9.3
Educational, health and social services . . . . . . . . . 2,025 18.1
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation Families with female householder, no
and food services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,985 17.7 husband present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 17.0
Other services (except public administration) . . . . 573 5.1 With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 150 26.2
Public administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 2.4 With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 66 31.3
CLASS OF WORKER Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,516 6.7
Private wage and salary workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,298 82.9 18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982 5.7
Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,243 11.1 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 6.6
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated Related children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512 9.6
business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673 6.0 Related children 5 to 17 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 9.7
Unpaid family workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - Unrelated individuals 15 years and over. . . . . . . . . 632 15.0
-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.
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If the denominator of a mean value or per capita value is less than 30, then that value is calculated using a rounded aggregate in the numerator.
See text.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.
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Table DP-4. Profile of Selected Housing Characteristics: 2000
Geographic area: Westerly town, Washington County, Rhode Island
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent
Total housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,292 100.0 OCCUPANTS PER ROOM
UNITS IN STRUCTURE Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,402 100.0
1-unit, detached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,269 64.4 1.00 or less. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,278 98.7
1-unit, attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 3.0 1.01 to 1.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 1.0
2 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,698 15.0 1.51 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 0.4
3 or 4 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,045 9.3
5 to 9 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 3.2 Specified owner-occupied units . . . . . . . . 5,061 100.0
10 to 19 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 1.3 VALUE
20 or more units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 3.8 Less than $50,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 0.6
Mobile home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 0.1 $50,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 5.8
Boat, RV, van, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - $100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,212 43.7
$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,238 24.5
YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT $200,000 to $299,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802 15.8
1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 0.7 $300,000 to $499,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 6.3
1995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627 5.6 $500,000 to $999,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 2.4
1990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709 6.3 $1,000,000 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 0.9
1980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,195 19.4 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149,900 (X)
1970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,465 13.0
1960 to 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,226 10.9 MORTGAGE STATUS AND SELECTED
1940 to 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,082 18.4 MONTHLY OWNER COSTS
1939 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,910 25.8 With a mortgage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,232 63.9
Less than $300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 0.1
ROOMS $300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 0.9
1 room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 1.0 $500 to $699 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 4.9
2 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 2.2 $700 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 14.7
3 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794 7.0 $1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,383 27.3
4 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,960 17.4 $1,500 to $1,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615 12.2
5 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,471 21.9 $2,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 3.7
6 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,153 19.1 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,168 (X)
7 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,521 13.5 Not mortgaged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,829 36.1
8 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856 7.6 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 (X)
9 or more rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,177 10.4
Median (rooms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 (X) SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTS
AS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLD
Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,402 100.0 INCOME IN 1999
YEAR HOUSEHOLDER MOVED INTO UNIT Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,748 34.5
1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,467 15.6 15.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788 15.6
1995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,669 28.4 20.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 15.9
1990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,367 14.5 25.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540 10.7
1980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,486 15.8 30.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 6.4
1970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 998 10.6 35.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824 16.3
1969 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,415 15.0 Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 0.6
VEHICLES AVAILABLE Specified renter-occupied units . . . . . . . . 3,375 100.0
None . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614 6.5 GROSS RENT
1 ........................................... 3,247 34.5 Less than $200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 4.5
2 ........................................... 3,972 42.2 $200 to $299 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 5.2
3 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,569 16.7 $300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550 16.3
$500 to $749 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,461 43.3
HOUSE HEATING FUEL $750 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664 19.7
Utility gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,399 25.5 $1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 3.5
Bottled, tank, or LP gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 3.1 $1,500 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 1.5
Electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,532 16.3 No cash rent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 6.1
Fuel oil, kerosene, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,049 53.7 Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610 (X)
Coal or coke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 0.1
Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 1.1 GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OF
Solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN 1999
Other fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 0.2 Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 15.7
No fuel used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 0.1 15.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597 17.7
20.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472 14.0
SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS 25.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 11.4
Lacking complete plumbing facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 0.2 30.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 7.6
Lacking complete kitchen facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 1.0 35.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890 26.4
No telephone service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 0.8 Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 7.2
-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.
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