DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Troy city
[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 49,170 100.0
      enrolled in school 15,771 100.0   Native 46,298 94.2
Nursery school, preschool 764 4.8       Born in United States 45,572 92.7
Kindergarten 764 4.8           State of residence 38,633 78.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 5,005 31.7           Different state 6,939 14.1
High school (grades 9-12) 1,999 12.7       Born outside United States 726 1.5
College or graduate school 7,239 45.9   Foreign born 2,872 5.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,605 3.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,125 2.3
  Population 25 years and over 29,727 100.0       Not a citizen 1,747 3.6
Less than 9th grade 2,398 8.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 4,224 14.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 9,589 32.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 2,872 100.0
Some college, no degree 5,124 17.2   Europe 846 29.5
Associate degree 2,637 8.9   Asia 1,431 49.8
Bachelor's degree 3,305 11.1   Africa 90 3.1
Graduate or professional degree 2,450 8.2   Oceania 8 0.3
        Latin America 420 14.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 77.7 (X)   Northern America 77 2.7
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 19.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 46,084 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 39,984 100.0   English only 40,544 88.0
Never married 15,588 39.0   Language other than English 5,540 12.0
Now married, except separated 15,733 39.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2,176 4.7
Separated 1,388 3.5   Spanish 1,609 3.5
Widowed 3,411 8.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 589 1.3
 Female 2,728 6.8   Other Indo-European languages 2,371 5.1
Divorced 3,864 9.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 638 1.4
 Female 2,170 5.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 1,276 2.8
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 827 1.8
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 49,170 100.0
           under 18 years 599 100.0     Total ancestries reported 54,915 111.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 256 42.7   Arab 332 0.7
        Czech¹ 63 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 286 0.6
          Civilian population 18 years and over 38,294 100.0   Dutch 1,183 2.4
Civilian veterans 4,277 11.2   English 3,652 7.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 4,490 9.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 1,229 2.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 6,256 12.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 12,090 100.0   Greek 201 0.4
With a disability 1,346 11.1   Hungarian 112 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 26,894 100.0   Irish¹ 11,941 24.3
With a disability 6,296 23.4   Italian 6,981 14.2
 Percent employed 57.0 (X)   Lithuanian 152 0.3
No disability 20,598 76.6   Norwegian 181 0.4
 Percent employed 75.3 (X)   Polish 2,593 5.3
     Population 65 years and over 6,196 100.0   Portuguese 41 0.1
With a disability 2,556 41.3   Russian 483 1.0
        Scotch-Irish 409 0.8
        Scottish 735 1.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 60 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 46,084 100.0   Subsaharan African 272 0.6
Same house in 1995 23,328 50.6   Swedish 179 0.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 21,226 46.1   Swiss 62 0.1
 Same county 11,176 24.3   Ukrainian 711 1.4
 Different county 10,050 21.8   United States or American 1,886 3.8
  Same state 6,885 14.9   Welsh 212 0.4
  Different state 3,165 6.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 354 0.7
Elsewhere in 1995 1,530 3.3   Other ancestries 9,859 20.1
 
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.