DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hoosick 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 6,734 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,788 100.0   Native 6,581 97.7
Nursery school, preschool 82 4.6       Born in United States 6,540 97.1
Kindergarten 100 5.6           State of residence 3,593 53.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 805 45.0           Different state 2,947 43.8
High school (grades 9-12) 382 21.4       Born outside United States 41 0.6
College or graduate school 419 23.4   Foreign born 153 2.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 54 0.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 72 1.1
  Population 25 years and over 4,507 100.0       Not a citizen 81 1.2
Less than 9th grade 233 5.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 537 11.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,697 37.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 153 100.0
Some college, no degree 750 16.6   Europe 54 35.3
Associate degree 469 10.4   Asia 66 43.1
Bachelor's degree 454 10.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 367 8.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 19 12.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 82.9 (X)   Northern America 14 9.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 18.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 6,287 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 5,341 100.0   English only 5,976 95.1
Never married 1,327 24.8   Language other than English 311 4.9
Now married, except separated 3,053 57.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 128 2.0
Separated 145 2.7   Spanish 71 1.1
Widowed 413 7.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 35 0.6
 Female 319 6.0   Other Indo-European languages 189 3.0
Divorced 403 7.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 62 1.0
 Female 213 4.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 24 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 24 0.4
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 6,734 100.0
           under 18 years 50 100.0     Total ancestries reported 7,373 109.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 18 36.0   Arab 23 0.3
        Czech¹ 35 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 45 0.7
          Civilian population 18 years and over 5,031 100.0   Dutch 295 4.4
Civilian veterans 767 15.2   English 727 10.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 586 8.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 274 4.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,031 15.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,527 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 148 9.7   Hungarian 65 1.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,663 100.0   Irish¹ 1,623 24.1
With a disability 551 15.0   Italian 519 7.7
 Percent employed 53.5 (X)   Lithuanian 174 2.6
No disability 3,112 85.0   Norwegian 62 0.9
 Percent employed 85.5 (X)   Polish 418 6.2
     Population 65 years and over 1,019 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 332 32.6   Russian 39 0.6
        Scotch-Irish 83 1.2
        Scottish 101 1.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 6,287 100.0   Subsaharan African 2 0.0
Same house in 1995 4,196 66.7   Swedish 45 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,075 33.0   Swiss 23 0.3
 Same county 1,364 21.7   Ukrainian 17 0.3
 Different county 711 11.3   United States or American 539 8.0
  Same state 313 5.0   Welsh 36 0.5
  Different state 398 6.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 54 0.8
Elsewhere in 1995 16 0.3   Other ancestries 557 8.3
 
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.