Table 24 %Teens Not in School and Not Working, Ages 16-19, Rhode Island, 1990
City/Town	Total Number of Teens Ages 16-19	Jobless High School Graduates	Jobless Non-High School Graduates	Total Number of Jobless Teens	% of Teens Who are Jobless
Barrington	800	8	17	25	3.1%
Bristol	1,703	43	34	77	4.5%
Burrillville	886	33	31	64	7.2%
Central Falls	931	35	100	135	14.5%
Charlestown	261	0	0	0	0.0%
Coventry	1,689	59	52	111	6.6%
Cranston	3,500	119	304	423	12.1%
Cumberland	1,474	59	128	187	12.7%
East Greenwich	627	0	7	7	1.1%
East Providence	2,408	72	180	252	10.5%
Exeter	279	16	17	33	11.8%
Foster	232	16	3	19	8.2%
Glocester	565	27	27	54	9.6%
Hopkinton	377	10	44	54	14.3%
Jamestown	226	0	10	10	4.4%
Johnston	1,235	13	30	43	3.5%
Lincoln	874	32	17	49	5.6%
Little Compton	167	0	4	4	2.4%
Middletown	922	20	27	47	5.1%
Narragansett	653	15	16	31	4.7%
Newport	1,978	56	46	102	5.2%
New Shoreham	20	0	0	0	0.0%
North Kingstown	1,269	12	30	42	3.3%
North Providence	1,444	29	78	107	7.4%
North Smithfield	578	30	0	30	5.2%
Pawtucket	3,632	81	303	384	10.6%
Portsmouth	851	10	13	23	2.7%
Providence	12,841	254	1,042	1,296	10.1%
Richmond	284	18	16	34	12.0%
Scituate	555	24	10	34	6.1%
Smithfield	1,625	21	16	37	2.3%
South Kingstown	3,818	15	7	22	0.6%
Tiverton	812	34	24	58	7.1%
Warren	505	0	37	37	7.3%
Warwick	4,231	151	198	349	8.2%
Westerly	992	10	108	118	11.9%
West Greenwich	211	15	0	15	7.1%
West Warwick	1,478	46	89	135	9.1%
Woonsocket	2,357	101	285	386	16.4%
Core Cities	21,739	527	1,776	2,303	10.6%
Remainder of State	37,551	957	1,574	2,531	6.7%
Rhode Island	59,290	1,484	3,350	4,834	8.2%
U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1990 census of Population. Core cities are Providence, Pawtucket, Woonsocket, Newport and Central Falls.
The denominator is the number of teens age 16 to 19 according to the 1990 Census of Population.

Last Update: 5/9/97 by JDC