DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Coeymans town
[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 8,151 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,072 100.0   Native 8,002 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 149 7.2       Born in United States 7,949 97.5
Kindergarten 64 3.1           State of residence 7,070 86.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,112 53.7           Different state 879 10.8
High school (grades 9-12) 547 26.4       Born outside United States 53 0.7
College or graduate school 200 9.7   Foreign born 149 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 59 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 70 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 5,266 100.0       Not a citizen 79 1.0
Less than 9th grade 236 4.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 648 12.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,026 38.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 149 100.0
Some college, no degree 964 18.3   Europe 29 19.5
Associate degree 539 10.2   Asia 10 6.7
Bachelor's degree 512 9.7   Africa 20 13.4
Graduate or professional degree 341 6.5   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 71 47.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 83.2 (X)   Northern America 19 12.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 16.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 7,617 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,325 100.0   English only 7,218 94.8
Never married 1,598 25.3   Language other than English 399 5.2
Now married, except separated 3,584 56.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 87 1.1
Separated 234 3.7   Spanish 187 2.5
Widowed 350 5.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 32 0.4
 Female 279 4.4   Other Indo-European languages 202 2.7
Divorced 559 8.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 55 0.7
 Female 336 5.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 8,151 100.0
           under 18 years 71 100.0     Total ancestries reported 9,562 117.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 32 45.1   Arab 12 0.1
        Czech¹ 49 0.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 11 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 5,927 100.0   Dutch 670 8.2
Civilian veterans 756 12.8   English 757 9.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 628 7.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 176 2.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,602 19.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,965 100.0   Greek 43 0.5
With a disability 170 8.7   Hungarian 61 0.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,717 100.0   Irish¹ 1,915 23.5
With a disability 828 17.6   Italian 1,405 17.2
 Percent employed 63.9 (X)   Lithuanian 22 0.3
No disability 3,889 82.4   Norwegian 68 0.8
 Percent employed 82.1 (X)   Polish 304 3.7
     Population 65 years and over 935 100.0   Portuguese 6 0.1
With a disability 418 44.7   Russian 39 0.5
        Scotch-Irish 124 1.5
        Scottish 195 2.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 10 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 7,617 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 4,963 65.2   Swedish 73 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,623 34.4   Swiss 12 0.1
 Same county 1,709 22.4   Ukrainian 23 0.3
 Different county 914 12.0   United States or American 418 5.1
  Same state 671 8.8   Welsh 17 0.2
  Different state 243 3.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 25 0.3
Elsewhere in 1995 31 0.4   Other ancestries 897 11.0
 
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.