DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Schaghticoke 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 7,401 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,884 100.0   Native 7,302 98.7
Nursery school, preschool 157 8.3       Born in United States 7,240 97.8
Kindergarten 94 5.0           State of residence 6,584 89.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 963 51.1           Different state 656 8.9
High school (grades 9-12) 352 18.7       Born outside United States 62 0.8
College or graduate school 318 16.9   Foreign born 99 1.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 10 0.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 67 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 5,036 100.0       Not a citizen 32 0.4
Less than 9th grade 160 3.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 378 7.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,970 39.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 99 100.0
Some college, no degree 993 19.7   Europe 55 55.6
Associate degree 729 14.5   Asia 8 8.1
Bachelor's degree 500 9.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 306 6.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 22 22.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 89.3 (X)   Northern America 14 14.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 16.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 6,914 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 5,817 100.0   English only 6,699 96.9
Never married 1,280 22.0   Language other than English 215 3.1
Now married, except separated 3,687 63.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 52 0.8
Separated 69 1.2   Spanish 46 0.7
Widowed 344 5.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 17 0.2
 Female 280 4.8   Other Indo-European languages 161 2.3
Divorced 437 7.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 27 0.4
 Female 205 3.5   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 7,401 100.0
           under 18 years 126 100.0     Total ancestries reported 8,860 119.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 43 34.1   Arab 6 0.1
        Czech¹ 28 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 92 1.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 5,518 100.0   Dutch 273 3.7
Civilian veterans 792 14.4   English 680 9.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 897 12.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 303 4.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,122 15.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,623 100.0   Greek 49 0.7
With a disability 58 3.6   Hungarian 60 0.8
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,315 100.0   Irish¹ 2,210 29.9
With a disability 536 12.4   Italian 1,171 15.8
 Percent employed 52.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 3,779 87.6   Norwegian 6 0.1
 Percent employed 79.4 (X)   Polish 427 5.8
     Population 65 years and over 976 100.0   Portuguese 9 0.1
With a disability 308 31.6   Russian 102 1.4
        Scotch-Irish 97 1.3
        Scottish 171 2.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 3 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 6,914 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 5,490 79.4   Swedish 63 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,424 20.6   Swiss 8 0.1
 Same county 782 11.3   Ukrainian 99 1.3
 Different county 642 9.3   United States or American 257 3.5
  Same state 470 6.8   Welsh 90 1.2
  Different state 172 2.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 38 0.5
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 599 8.1
 
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.