DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Watervliet 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 10,207 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,419 100.0   Native 9,782 95.8
Nursery school, preschool 182 7.5       Born in United States 9,653 94.6
Kindergarten 100 4.1           State of residence 8,800 86.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,096 45.3           Different state 853 8.4
High school (grades 9-12) 602 24.9       Born outside United States 129 1.3
College or graduate school 439 18.1   Foreign born 425 4.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 120 1.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 272 2.7
  Population 25 years and over 6,834 100.0       Not a citizen 153 1.5
Less than 9th grade 328 4.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 949 13.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,565 37.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 425 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,390 20.3   Europe 229 53.9
Associate degree 574 8.4   Asia 129 30.4
Bachelor's degree 661 9.7   Africa 20 4.7
Graduate or professional degree 367 5.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 41 9.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 81.3 (X)   Northern America 6 1.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 9,544 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 8,178 100.0   English only 8,690 91.1
Never married 2,968 36.3   Language other than English 854 8.9
Now married, except separated 3,140 38.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 281 2.9
Separated 266 3.3   Spanish 187 2.0
Widowed 825 10.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 79 0.8
 Female 666 8.1   Other Indo-European languages 495 5.2
Divorced 979 12.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 144 1.5
 Female 582 7.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 100 1.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 49 0.5
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 10,207 100.0
           under 18 years 129 100.0     Total ancestries reported 12,750 124.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 65 50.4   Arab 36 0.4
        Czech¹ 46 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 38 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 7,775 100.0   Dutch 267 2.6
Civilian veterans 1,225 15.8   English 669 6.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,277 12.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 415 4.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,477 14.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,054 100.0   Greek 80 0.8
With a disability 225 11.0   Hungarian 27 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 5,844 100.0   Irish¹ 3,111 30.5
With a disability 1,269 21.7   Italian 1,950 19.1
 Percent employed 58.0 (X)   Lithuanian 92 0.9
No disability 4,575 78.3   Norwegian 78 0.8
 Percent employed 83.6 (X)   Polish 865 8.5
     Population 65 years and over 1,626 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 563 34.6   Russian 87 0.9
        Scotch-Irish 88 0.9
        Scottish 158 1.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 32 0.3
  Population 5 years and over 9,544 100.0   Subsaharan African 20 0.2
Same house in 1995 5,330 55.8   Swedish 27 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 4,104 43.0   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 2,532 26.5   Ukrainian 284 2.8
 Different county 1,572 16.5   United States or American 298 2.9
  Same state 1,277 13.4   Welsh 84 0.8
  Different state 295 3.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 26 0.3
Elsewhere in 1995 110 1.2   Other ancestries 1,218 11.9
 
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.