DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: North Greenbush 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 10,754 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,523 100.0   Native 10,424 96.9
Nursery school, preschool 222 8.8       Born in United States 10,365 96.4
Kindergarten 96 3.8           State of residence 9,132 84.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,102 43.7           Different state 1,233 11.5
High school (grades 9-12) 612 24.3       Born outside United States 59 0.5
College or graduate school 491 19.5   Foreign born 330 3.1
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 39 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 256 2.4
  Population 25 years and over 7,773 100.0       Not a citizen 74 0.7
Less than 9th grade 331 4.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 466 6.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,316 29.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 330 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,415 18.2   Europe 195 59.1
Associate degree 1,173 15.1   Asia 96 29.1
Bachelor's degree 1,127 14.5   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 945 12.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 29 8.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 89.7 (X)   Northern America 10 3.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 26.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 10,161 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 8,824 100.0   English only 9,597 94.4
Never married 2,022 22.9   Language other than English 564 5.6
Now married, except separated 5,415 61.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 128 1.3
Separated 152 1.7   Spanish 55 0.5
Widowed 695 7.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 575 6.5   Other Indo-European languages 438 4.3
Divorced 540 6.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 81 0.8
 Female 342 3.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 60 0.6
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 47 0.5
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 10,754 100.0
           under 18 years 108 100.0     Total ancestries reported 13,112 121.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 7 6.5   Arab 102 0.9
        Czech¹ 47 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 50 0.5
          Civilian population 18 years and over 8,355 100.0   Dutch 478 4.4
Civilian veterans 1,275 15.3   English 1,068 9.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 926 8.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 303 2.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,062 19.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,960 100.0   Greek 95 0.9
With a disability 107 5.5   Hungarian 32 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 6,082 100.0   Irish¹ 2,908 27.0
With a disability 749 12.3   Italian 2,035 18.9
 Percent employed 61.8 (X)   Lithuanian 42 0.4
No disability 5,333 87.7   Norwegian 60 0.6
 Percent employed 82.9 (X)   Polish 719 6.7
     Population 65 years and over 1,657 100.0   Portuguese 16 0.1
With a disability 589 35.5   Russian 200 1.9
        Scotch-Irish 175 1.6
        Scottish 269 2.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 2 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 10,161 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 7,009 69.0   Swedish 45 0.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,142 30.9   Swiss 10 0.1
 Same county 2,000 19.7   Ukrainian 196 1.8
 Different county 1,142 11.2   United States or American 339 3.2
  Same state 889 8.7   Welsh 86 0.8
  Different state 253 2.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 10 0.1   Other ancestries 847 7.9
 
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.