DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Menands 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 3,911 100.0
      enrolled in school 853 100.0   Native 3,491 89.3
Nursery school, preschool 48 5.6       Born in United States 3,464 88.6
Kindergarten 24 2.8           State of residence 2,983 76.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 325 38.1           Different state 481 12.3
High school (grades 9-12) 207 24.3       Born outside United States 27 0.7
College or graduate school 249 29.2   Foreign born 420 10.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 245 6.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 232 5.9
  Population 25 years and over 3,062 100.0       Not a citizen 188 4.8
Less than 9th grade 62 2.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 177 5.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 718 23.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 420 100.0
Some college, no degree 546 17.8   Europe 120 28.6
Associate degree 214 7.0   Asia 218 51.9
Bachelor's degree 700 22.9   Africa 52 12.4
Graduate or professional degree 645 21.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 11 2.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 92.2 (X)   Northern America 19 4.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 43.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,764 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 3,367 100.0   English only 3,301 87.7
Never married 1,011 30.0   Language other than English 463 12.3
Now married, except separated 1,635 48.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 123 3.3
Separated 116 3.4   Spanish 53 1.4
Widowed 318 9.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 15 0.4
 Female 259 7.7   Other Indo-European languages 313 8.3
Divorced 287 8.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 83 2.2
 Female 158 4.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 72 1.9
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 14 0.4
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 3,911 100.0
           under 18 years 23 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,434 113.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 8 0.2
        Czech¹ 15 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 3,229 100.0   Dutch 70 1.8
Civilian veterans 381 11.8   English 333 8.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 237 6.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 48 1.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 502 12.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 589 100.0   Greek 20 0.5
With a disability 31 5.3   Hungarian 9 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,321 100.0   Irish¹ 1,095 28.0
With a disability 464 20.0   Italian 619 15.8
 Percent employed 65.7 (X)   Lithuanian 14 0.4
No disability 1,857 80.0   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 78.1 (X)   Polish 128 3.3
     Population 65 years and over 854 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 290 34.0   Russian 103 2.6
        Scotch-Irish 27 0.7
        Scottish 122 3.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 7 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 3,764 100.0   Subsaharan African 77 2.0
Same house in 1995 2,110 56.1   Swedish 26 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,561 41.5   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 709 18.8   Ukrainian 43 1.1
 Different county 852 22.6   United States or American 159 4.1
  Same state 541 14.4   Welsh 10 0.3
  Different state 311 8.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 16 0.4
Elsewhere in 1995 93 2.5   Other ancestries 746 19.1
 
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.