DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Guilderland 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 32,688 100.0
      enrolled in school 8,688 100.0   Native 30,472 93.2
Nursery school, preschool 578 6.7       Born in United States 30,329 92.8
Kindergarten 446 5.1           State of residence 25,459 77.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 3,966 45.6           Different state 4,870 14.9
High school (grades 9-12) 1,726 19.9       Born outside United States 143 0.4
College or graduate school 1,972 22.7   Foreign born 2,216 6.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,035 3.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,073 3.3
  Population 25 years and over 22,890 100.0       Not a citizen 1,143 3.5
Less than 9th grade 616 2.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,094 4.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 5,043 22.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 2,216 100.0
Some college, no degree 3,577 15.6   Europe 668 30.1
Associate degree 2,259 9.9   Asia 987 44.5
Bachelor's degree 5,319 23.2   Africa 88 4.0
Graduate or professional degree 4,982 21.8   Oceania 41 1.9
        Latin America 225 10.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 92.5 (X)   Northern America 207 9.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 45.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 30,977 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 26,237 100.0   English only 28,177 91.0
Never married 6,324 24.1   Language other than English 2,800 9.0
Now married, except separated 15,406 58.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 813 2.6
Separated 554 2.1   Spanish 647 2.1
Widowed 1,739 6.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 169 0.5
 Female 1,428 5.4   Other Indo-European languages 1,345 4.3
Divorced 2,214 8.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 333 1.1
 Female 1,358 5.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 747 2.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 300 1.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 32,688 100.0
           under 18 years 277 100.0     Total ancestries reported 41,515 127.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 89 32.1   Arab 180 0.6
        Czech¹ 126 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 107 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 24,861 100.0   Dutch 1,455 4.5
Civilian veterans 3,274 13.2   English 3,840 11.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,608 4.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 758 2.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 6,659 20.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 6,971 100.0   Greek 254 0.8
With a disability 505 7.2   Hungarian 249 0.8
     Population 21 to 64 years 19,649 100.0   Irish¹ 7,880 24.1
With a disability 2,726 13.9   Italian 6,689 20.5
 Percent employed 65.5 (X)   Lithuanian 198 0.6
No disability 16,923 86.1   Norwegian 150 0.5
 Percent employed 83.6 (X)   Polish 2,460 7.5
     Population 65 years and over 4,023 100.0   Portuguese 71 0.2
With a disability 1,405 34.9   Russian 755 2.3
        Scotch-Irish 507 1.6
        Scottish 618 1.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 116 0.4
  Population 5 years and over 30,977 100.0   Subsaharan African 9 0.0
Same house in 1995 18,180 58.7   Swedish 252 0.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 12,133 39.2   Swiss 98 0.3
 Same county 6,818 22.0   Ukrainian 335 1.0
 Different county 5,315 17.2   United States or American 1,123 3.4
  Same state 3,632 11.7   Welsh 226 0.7
  Different state 1,683 5.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 88 0.3
Elsewhere in 1995 664 2.1   Other ancestries 4,704 14.4
 
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.