DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Clifton Park 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 32,995 100.0
      enrolled in school 8,905 100.0   Native 31,082 94.2
Nursery school, preschool 662 7.4       Born in United States 30,743 93.2
Kindergarten 554 6.2           State of residence 23,375 70.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 3,873 43.5           Different state 7,368 22.3
High school (grades 9-12) 2,100 23.6       Born outside United States 339 1.0
College or graduate school 1,716 19.3   Foreign born 1,913 5.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 562 1.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,222 3.7
  Population 25 years and over 22,523 100.0       Not a citizen 691 2.1
Less than 9th grade 266 1.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 660 2.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,751 16.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,913 100.0
Some college, no degree 3,616 16.1   Europe 743 38.8
Associate degree 2,329 10.3   Asia 839 43.9
Bachelor's degree 6,813 30.2   Africa 32 1.7
Graduate or professional degree 5,088 22.6   Oceania 16 0.8
        Latin America 102 5.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 95.9 (X)   Northern America 181 9.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 52.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 30,931 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 25,882 100.0   English only 28,672 92.7
Never married 5,553 21.5   Language other than English 2,259 7.3
Now married, except separated 17,072 66.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 413 1.3
Separated 474 1.8   Spanish 329 1.1
Widowed 1,159 4.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 87 0.3
 Female 940 3.6   Other Indo-European languages 1,460 4.7
Divorced 1,624 6.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 244 0.8
 Female 980 3.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 392 1.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 76 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 32,995 100.0
           under 18 years 211 100.0     Total ancestries reported 43,607 132.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 56 26.5   Arab 263 0.8
        Czech¹ 202 0.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 164 0.5
          Civilian population 18 years and over 24,243 100.0   Dutch 1,007 3.1
Civilian veterans 3,098 12.8   English 4,567 13.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 2,526 7.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 881 2.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 6,247 18.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 7,413 100.0   Greek 284 0.9
With a disability 431 5.8   Hungarian 198 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 20,176 100.0   Irish¹ 9,197 27.9
With a disability 1,770 8.8   Italian 6,419 19.5
 Percent employed 66.4 (X)   Lithuanian 200 0.6
No disability 18,406 91.2   Norwegian 337 1.0
 Percent employed 82.3 (X)   Polish 2,908 8.8
     Population 65 years and over 3,290 100.0   Portuguese 30 0.1
With a disability 740 22.5   Russian 679 2.1
        Scotch-Irish 559 1.7
        Scottish 807 2.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 74 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 30,931 100.0   Subsaharan African 20 0.1
Same house in 1995 18,226 58.9   Swedish 308 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 12,316 39.8   Swiss 153 0.5
 Same county 4,703 15.2   Ukrainian 492 1.5
 Different county 7,613 24.6   United States or American 757 2.3
  Same state 4,925 15.9   Welsh 190 0.6
  Different state 2,688 8.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 39 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 389 1.3   Other ancestries 4,099 12.4
 
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.