DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Voorheesville 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 2,705 100.0
      enrolled in school 749 100.0   Native 2,612 96.6
Nursery school, preschool 35 4.7       Born in United States 2,587 95.6
Kindergarten 36 4.8           State of residence 2,129 78.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 347 46.3           Different state 458 16.9
High school (grades 9-12) 182 24.3       Born outside United States 25 0.9
College or graduate school 149 19.9   Foreign born 93 3.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 25 0.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 62 2.3
  Population 25 years and over 1,872 100.0       Not a citizen 31 1.1
Less than 9th grade 28 1.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 73 3.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 442 23.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 93 100.0
Some college, no degree 344 18.4   Europe 31 33.3
Associate degree 237 12.7   Asia 39 41.9
Bachelor's degree 471 25.2   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 277 14.8   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 19 20.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 94.6 (X)   Northern America 4 4.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 40.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,580 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,160 100.0   English only 2,492 96.6
Never married 497 23.0   Language other than English 88 3.4
Now married, except separated 1,369 63.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 20 0.8
Separated 59 2.7   Spanish 31 1.2
Widowed 63 2.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 13 0.5
 Female 53 2.5   Other Indo-European languages 36 1.4
Divorced 172 8.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 3 0.1
 Female 123 5.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 21 0.8
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 2,705 100.0
           under 18 years 20 100.0     Total ancestries reported 3,761 139.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 5 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 12 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,029 100.0   Dutch 158 5.8
Civilian veterans 322 15.9   English 505 18.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 160 5.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 22 0.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 767 28.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 643 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 39 6.1   Hungarian 5 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,597 100.0   Irish¹ 863 31.9
With a disability 158 9.9   Italian 356 13.2
 Percent employed 60.8 (X)   Lithuanian 8 0.3
No disability 1,439 90.1   Norwegian 25 0.9
 Percent employed 84.9 (X)   Polish 210 7.8
     Population 65 years and over 340 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 117 34.4   Russian 20 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 41 1.5
        Scottish 114 4.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,580 100.0   Subsaharan African 17 0.6
Same house in 1995 1,955 75.8   Swedish 12 0.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 612 23.7   Swiss 13 0.5
 Same county 358 13.9   Ukrainian 13 0.5
 Different county 254 9.8   United States or American 80 3.0
  Same state 189 7.3   Welsh 69 2.6
  Different state 65 2.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 13 0.5   Other ancestries 286 10.6
 
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.