DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Colonie village
[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 7,916 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,818 100.0   Native 7,460 94.2
Nursery school, preschool 71 3.9       Born in United States 7,395 93.4
Kindergarten 37 2.0           State of residence 6,591 83.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 871 47.9           Different state 804 10.2
High school (grades 9-12) 487 26.8       Born outside United States 65 0.8
College or graduate school 352 19.4   Foreign born 456 5.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 85 1.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 338 4.3
  Population 25 years and over 5,702 100.0       Not a citizen 118 1.5
Less than 9th grade 134 2.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 472 8.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,006 35.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 456 100.0
Some college, no degree 999 17.5   Europe 200 43.9
Associate degree 604 10.6   Asia 169 37.1
Bachelor's degree 891 15.6   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 596 10.5   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 68 14.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 89.4 (X)   Northern America 19 4.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 26.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 7,513 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,532 100.0   English only 6,929 92.2
Never married 1,532 23.5   Language other than English 584 7.8
Now married, except separated 3,715 56.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 253 3.4
Separated 86 1.3   Spanish 146 1.9
Widowed 489 7.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 44 0.6
 Female 364 5.6   Other Indo-European languages 234 3.1
Divorced 710 10.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 94 1.3
 Female 408 6.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 185 2.5
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 115 1.5
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 7,916 100.0
           under 18 years 136 100.0     Total ancestries reported 10,695 135.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 39 28.7   Arab 37 0.5
        Czech¹ 66 0.8
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 71 0.9
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,225 100.0   Dutch 421 5.3
Civilian veterans 946 15.2   English 1,143 14.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 557 7.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 293 3.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,720 21.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,541 100.0   Greek 46 0.6
With a disability 69 4.5   Hungarian 22 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,601 100.0   Irish¹ 2,095 26.5
With a disability 652 14.2   Italian 1,616 20.4
 Percent employed 69.5 (X)   Lithuanian 33 0.4
No disability 3,949 85.8   Norwegian 48 0.6
 Percent employed 83.6 (X)   Polish 806 10.2
     Population 65 years and over 1,371 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 449 32.7   Russian 107 1.4
        Scotch-Irish 105 1.3
        Scottish 128 1.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 31 0.4
  Population 5 years and over 7,513 100.0   Subsaharan African 19 0.2
Same house in 1995 5,444 72.5   Swedish 30 0.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,025 27.0   Swiss 8 0.1
 Same county 1,503 20.0   Ukrainian 56 0.7
 Different county 522 6.9   United States or American 106 1.3
  Same state 400 5.3   Welsh 98 1.2
  Different state 122 1.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 36 0.5
Elsewhere in 1995 44 0.6   Other ancestries 997 12.6
 
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.