DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Albany city
[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 poplulation 95,658 100.0
      enrolled in school 32,325 100.0   Native 87,436 91.4
Nursery school, preschool 1,467 4.5       Born in United States 86,249 90.2
Kindergarten 1,125 3.5           State of residence 71,533 74.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 8,559 26.5           Different state 14,716 15.4
High school (grades 9-12) 4,292 13.3       Born outside United States 1,187 1.2
College or graduate school 16,882 52.2   Foreign born 8,222 8.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 3,709 3.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 4,200 4.4
  Population 25 years and over 58,339 100.0       Not a citizen 4,022 4.2
Less than 9th grade 3,248 5.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 7,709 13.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 14,232 24.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 8,222 100.0
Some college, no degree 9,431 16.2   Europe 2,582 31.4
Associate degree 4,745 8.1   Asia 2,361 28.7
Bachelor's degree 10,006 17.2   Africa 777 9.5
Graduate or professional degree 8,968 15.4   Oceania 20 0.2
        Latin America 2,243 27.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 81.2 (X)   Northern America 239 2.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 32.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 90,185 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 79,648 100.0   English only 78,255 86.8
Never married 36,269 45.5   Language other than English 11,930 13.2
Now married, except separated 27,337 34.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 4,264 4.7
Separated 2,749 3.5   Spanish 4,091 4.5
Widowed 6,748 8.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,316 1.5
 Female 5,351 6.7   Other Indo-European languages 4,794 5.3
Divorced 6,545 8.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,600 1.8
 Female 3,687 4.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2,003 2.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 961 1.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 95,658 100.0
           under 18 years 1,255 100.0     Total ancestries reported 99,665 104.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 625 49.8   Arab 400 0.4
        Czech¹ 329 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 195 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 76,699 100.0   Dutch 1,814 1.9
Civilian veterans 7,347 9.6   English 5,013 5.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 2,920 3.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 950 1.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 9,927 10.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 22,064 100.0   Greek 521 0.5
With a disability 2,516 11.4   Hungarian 445 0.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 54,382 100.0   Irish¹ 17,277 18.1
With a disability 11,404 21.0   Italian 11,816 12.4
 Percent employed 52.3 (X)   Lithuanian 314 0.3
No disability 42,978 79.0   Norwegian 271 0.3
 Percent employed 75.6 (X)   Polish 4,108 4.3
     Population 65 years and over 11,581 100.0   Portuguese 174 0.2
With a disability 4,882 42.2   Russian 2,065 2.2
        Scotch-Irish 684 0.7
        Scottish 994 1.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 149 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 90,185 100.0   Subsaharan African 1,810 1.9
Same house in 1995 40,207 44.6   Swedish 496 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 47,317 52.5   Swiss 144 0.2
 Same county 25,497 28.3   Ukrainian 662 0.7
 Different county 21,820 24.2   United States or American 2,356 2.5
  Same state 17,263 19.1   Welsh 492 0.5
  Different state 4,557 5.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 1,672 1.7
Elsewhere in 1995 2,661 3.0   Other ancestries 31,667 33.1
 
Date: September 10, 2003
 
-Represent 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 Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.