2002 Cherry Grove Census

The reason for this census was to gain empirical data that may be useful for our efforts to secure public and private grants for community development projects. The census was voluntary and anonymous, but it provided interesting and useful information about our community. Here are the major findings of the evaluation:

Gender:
68% Male
31% Female
1% Transgender

Age Range:
1% 18-25 years
10% 26-35 years
42% 36-50 years
26% 51-60 years
12% 61-70 years
3% over 80 years

First in Cherry Grove:
2% before 1950
9% before 1960
40% before 1980
66% before 1990

Own / Rent / Guests:
34% Own Houses/Apt’s
50% Renting
16% are Guests

Full Time Residents:
5.8% Full time residents
94.2% Seasonal residents

Spent Time in Cherry Grove:
26% Consistently
50% Regularly
8% Pretty often
13% Infrequently
3% Unknown

Respondent Plans to Return:
96.6% Yes
3.4% No

May Became A Full Time Resident:
20.5% Yes
79.5% No

 Registered Voters:
91.2% Yes
8.8% No

Sexual Identification:
64.2% Gay
22.1% Lesbian
8.3% Straight
2.3% Bi-sexual
0.7% Transgender
2.4% Unknown

Relationships:
64.6% Partnered
5.8% Married
26.7% Single
1.7% Widowed
1.2% Unknown

Vision, Hearing, Other Impairment:
91.8% None
1.5% Vision-Hearing
6.5% Other Impairment

Residence:
61% 1 or 2 persons per residence
39% 3 or more persons per residence

Number of Children in Residence:
18 Households responded having children
33 Total number of children have been recorded

Number of Businesses/Employees:
28 Businesses with a total of 169 Employees

Voting Location:
13.5% Suffolk County
67% New York State
4.9% Florida
14% Another Location

The Board of Directors expresses its appreciation and is very grateful to our member Robert Carney for his professional report, and we thank him and all the volunteers for their work in conducting and evaluating this census.
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