DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pittstown 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 5,644 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,574 100.0   Native 5,563 98.6
Nursery school, preschool 72 4.6       Born in United States 5,539 98.1
Kindergarten 85 5.4           State of residence 4,660 82.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 817 51.9           Different state 879 15.6
High school (grades 9-12) 379 24.1       Born outside United States 24 0.4
College or graduate school 221 14.0   Foreign born 81 1.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 5 0.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 71 1.3
  Population 25 years and over 3,619 100.0       Not a citizen 10 0.2
Less than 9th grade 130 3.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 388 10.7   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,325 36.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 81 100.0
Some college, no degree 698 19.3   Europe 51 63.0
Associate degree 408 11.3   Asia 7 8.6
Bachelor's degree 378 10.4   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 292 8.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 18 22.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 85.7 (X)   Northern America 5 6.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 18.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 5,248 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,313 100.0   English only 4,992 95.1
Never married 1,112 25.8   Language other than English 256 4.9
Now married, except separated 2,591 60.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 85 1.6
Separated 129 3.0   Spanish 77 1.5
Widowed 152 3.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 44 0.8
 Female 123 2.9   Other Indo-European languages 177 3.4
Divorced 329 7.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 39 0.7
 Female 189 4.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2 0.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 5,644 100.0
           under 18 years 116 100.0     Total ancestries reported 6,914 122.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 77 66.4   Arab 52 0.9
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 87 1.5
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,008 100.0   Dutch 273 4.8
Civilian veterans 533 13.3   English 626 11.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 620 11.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 237 4.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 978 17.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,418 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 92 6.5   Hungarian 7 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,283 100.0   Irish¹ 1,636 29.0
With a disability 484 14.7   Italian 558 9.9
 Percent employed 47.5 (X)   Lithuanian 33 0.6
No disability 2,799 85.3   Norwegian 60 1.1
 Percent employed 81.4 (X)   Polish 331 5.9
     Population 65 years and over 545 100.0   Portuguese 6 0.1
With a disability 210 38.5   Russian 48 0.9
        Scotch-Irish 104 1.8
        Scottish 163 2.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 6 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 5,248 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 3,547 67.6   Swedish 26 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,695 32.3   Swiss 30 0.5
 Same county 1,162 22.1   Ukrainian 86 1.5
 Different county 533 10.2   United States or American 365 6.5
  Same state 361 6.9   Welsh 38 0.7
  Different state 172 3.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 13 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995 6 0.1   Other ancestries 531 9.4
 
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.