Canaan, Caledonia County
Population according to 1990 census 1121
Urban population percentage 0
Percent reporting French or French Canadian ancestry 93.3
Percent who speak French at home 39.8
Population projections for the next 20 years (1995-2015) -13.8
Number of families according to 1990 census 313
Median household income, 1989 $23,056
Median year for housing structures built 1963
Poverty rate, 1989 15.7
Child poverty rate, 1989 16.8
Percent of households with public assistance income, 1990 7.9
Percentage of population with less than a high school education, 1990 33.7
Percent of children in single parent families, 1990-1992 9.2
Percent of first births to single women under 20 years of age with no high school diploma, 1990 16.7
Reflected county-wide change in the rate between, 1981-1991 +59.5

Sources: U.S. Census of Population and Housing, 1990 Vermont Health Care Authority, 1993; The State of Our Children: Kids Count in Vermont, The 1994 Vermont KIDS COUNT Data Book, Vermont Children's Forum, July 1995.

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