DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Poestenkill 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 4,054 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,022 100.0   Native 4,028 99.4
Nursery school, preschool 64 6.3       Born in United States 4,023 99.2
Kindergarten 63 6.2           State of residence 3,558 87.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 509 49.8           Different state 465 11.5
High school (grades 9-12) 266 26.0       Born outside United States 5 0.1
College or graduate school 120 11.7   Foreign born 26 0.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 20 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 2,719 100.0       Not a citizen 6 0.1
Less than 9th grade 45 1.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 227 8.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,012 37.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 26 100.0
Some college, no degree 559 20.6   Europe 12 46.2
Associate degree 314 11.5   Asia 8 30.8
Bachelor's degree 347 12.8   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 215 7.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 90.0 (X)   Northern America 6 23.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 20.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,824 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 3,166 100.0   English only 3,658 95.7
Never married 741 23.4   Language other than English 166 4.3
Now married, except separated 1,985 62.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 18 0.5
Separated 59 1.9   Spanish 66 1.7
Widowed 154 4.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 7 0.2
 Female 121 3.8   Other Indo-European languages 92 2.4
Divorced 227 7.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 7 0.2
 Female 99 3.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 8 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 4,054 100.0
           under 18 years 35 100.0     Total ancestries reported 5,042 124.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 10 28.6   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 17 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,965 100.0   Dutch 210 5.2
Civilian veterans 466 15.7   English 524 12.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 454 11.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 83 2.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 990 24.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 896 100.0   Greek 56 1.4
With a disability 52 5.8   Hungarian 26 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,470 100.0   Irish¹ 1,151 28.4
With a disability 404 16.4   Italian 550 13.6
 Percent employed 68.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 2,066 83.6   Norwegian 81 2.0
 Percent employed 86.4 (X)   Polish 250 6.2
     Population 65 years and over 437 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 153 35.0   Russian 52 1.3
        Scotch-Irish 41 1.0
        Scottish 42 1.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 35 0.9
  Population 5 years and over 3,824 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,646 69.2   Swedish 41 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,178 30.8   Swiss 13 0.3
 Same county 837 21.9   Ukrainian 54 1.3
 Different county 341 8.9   United States or American 177 4.4
  Same state 284 7.4   Welsh 26 0.6
  Different state 57 1.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 169 4.2
 
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.