DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Schodack 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 12,538 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,412 100.0   Native 12,246 97.7
Nursery school, preschool 263 7.7       Born in United States 12,190 97.2
Kindergarten 190 5.6           State of residence 10,511 83.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,627 47.7           Different state 1,679 13.4
High school (grades 9-12) 722 21.2       Born outside United States 56 0.4
College or graduate school 610 17.9   Foreign born 292 2.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 66 0.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 238 1.9
  Population 25 years and over 8,500 100.0       Not a citizen 54 0.4
Less than 9th grade 281 3.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 701 8.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,607 30.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 292 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,652 19.4   Europe 149 51.0
Associate degree 950 11.2   Asia 44 15.1
Bachelor's degree 1,315 15.5   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 994 11.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 64 21.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 88.4 (X)   Northern America 35 12.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 27.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 11,845 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 9,844 100.0   English only 11,234 94.8
Never married 2,218 22.5   Language other than English 611 5.2
Now married, except separated 6,086 61.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 104 0.9
Separated 183 1.9   Spanish 152 1.3
Widowed 629 6.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 28 0.2
 Female 503 5.1   Other Indo-European languages 417 3.5
Divorced 728 7.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 76 0.6
 Female 422 4.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 13 0.1
                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 12,538 100.0
           under 18 years 211 100.0     Total ancestries reported 16,211 129.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 76 36.0   Arab 51 0.4
        Czech¹ 55 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 49 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 9,286 100.0   Dutch 945 7.5
Civilian veterans 1,345 14.5   English 1,720 13.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,070 8.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 299 2.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,363 26.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 2,972 100.0   Greek 58 0.5
With a disability 310 10.4   Hungarian 83 0.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 7,242 100.0   Irish¹ 3,149 25.1
With a disability 784 10.8   Italian 1,742 13.9
 Percent employed 55.2 (X)   Lithuanian 70 0.6
No disability 6,458 89.2   Norwegian 43 0.3
 Percent employed 86.4 (X)   Polish 839 6.7
     Population 65 years and over 1,545 100.0   Portuguese 9 0.1
With a disability 574 37.2   Russian 203 1.6
        Scotch-Irish 149 1.2
        Scottish 279 2.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 34 0.3
  Population 5 years and over 11,845 100.0   Subsaharan African 6 0.0
Same house in 1995 8,376 70.7   Swedish 186 1.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,443 29.1   Swiss 11 0.1
 Same county 2,136 18.0   Ukrainian 136 1.1
 Different county 1,307 11.0   United States or American 528 4.2
  Same state 964 8.1   Welsh 104 0.8
  Different state 343 2.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 15 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 26 0.2   Other ancestries 1,015 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.