DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Mechanicville city
[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 5,019 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,161 100.0   Native 4,942 98.5
Nursery school, preschool 68 5.9       Born in United States 4,931 98.2
Kindergarten 86 7.4           State of residence 4,533 90.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 601 51.8           Different state 398 7.9
High school (grades 9-12) 246 21.2       Born outside United States 11 0.2
College or graduate school 160 13.8   Foreign born 77 1.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 9 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 55 1.1
  Population 25 years and over 3,384 100.0       Not a citizen 22 0.4
Less than 9th grade 158 4.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 551 16.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,355 40.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 77 100.0
Some college, no degree 516 15.2   Europe 53 68.8
Associate degree 324 9.6   Asia 8 10.4
Bachelor's degree 310 9.2   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 170 5.0   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 9 11.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 79.0 (X)   Northern America 7 9.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 14.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 4,701 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 3,989 100.0   English only 4,535 96.5
Never married 1,124 28.2   Language other than English 166 3.5
Now married, except separated 1,969 49.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 36 0.8
Separated 87 2.2   Spanish 44 0.9
Widowed 455 11.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 12 0.3
 Female 400 10.0   Other Indo-European languages 122 2.6
Divorced 354 8.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 24 0.5
 Female 215 5.4   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 5,019 100.0
           under 18 years 81 100.0     Total ancestries reported 6,386 127.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 33 40.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 8 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 5 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 3,774 100.0   Dutch 141 2.8
Civilian veterans 577 15.3   English 450 9.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 531 10.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 173 3.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 739 14.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,094 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 100 9.1   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,647 100.0   Irish¹ 1,333 26.6
With a disability 425 16.1   Italian 1,924 38.3
 Percent employed 63.3 (X)   Lithuanian 23 0.5
No disability 2,222 83.9   Norwegian 7 0.1
 Percent employed 83.5 (X)   Polish 265 5.3
     Population 65 years and over 945 100.0   Portuguese 9 0.2
With a disability 374 39.6   Russian 38 0.8
        Scotch-Irish 59 1.2
        Scottish 80 1.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 9 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 4,701 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,943 62.6   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,758 37.4   Swiss 9 0.2
 Same county 1,303 27.7   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 455 9.7   United States or American 379 7.6
  Same state 375 8.0   Welsh 15 0.3
  Different state 80 1.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 189 3.8
 
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.