DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Saratoga 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 5,141 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,178 100.0   Native 5,025 97.7
Nursery school, preschool 66 5.6       Born in United States 4,974 96.8
Kindergarten 71 6.0           State of residence 4,356 84.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 553 46.9           Different state 618 12.0
High school (grades 9-12) 295 25.0       Born outside United States 51 1.0
College or graduate school 193 16.4   Foreign born 116 2.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 41 0.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 70 1.4
  Population 25 years and over 3,519 100.0       Not a citizen 46 0.9
Less than 9th grade 153 4.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 429 12.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,177 33.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 116 100.0
Some college, no degree 676 19.2   Europe 55 47.4
Associate degree 339 9.6   Asia 41 35.3
Bachelor's degree 388 11.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 357 10.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 5 4.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 83.5 (X)   Northern America 15 12.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 21.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 4,818 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,125 100.0   English only 4,591 95.3
Never married 1,029 24.9   Language other than English 227 4.7
Now married, except separated 2,315 56.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 101 2.1
Separated 93 2.3   Spanish 63 1.3
Widowed 262 6.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 45 0.9
 Female 209 5.1   Other Indo-European languages 123 2.6
Divorced 426 10.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 33 0.7
 Female 229 5.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 41 0.9
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 23 0.5
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 5,141 100.0
           under 18 years 71 100.0     Total ancestries reported 5,887 114.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 29 40.8   Arab 5 0.1
        Czech¹ 34 0.7
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 26 0.5
          Civilian population 18 years and over 3,856 100.0   Dutch 217 4.2
Civilian veterans 588 15.2   English 704 13.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 660 12.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 168 3.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 658 12.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,112 100.0   Greek 13 0.3
With a disability 174 15.6   Hungarian 48 0.9
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,992 100.0   Irish¹ 1,047 20.4
With a disability 624 20.9   Italian 632 12.3
 Percent employed 59.3 (X)   Lithuanian 17 0.3
No disability 2,368 79.1   Norwegian 36 0.7
 Percent employed 81.8 (X)   Polish 363 7.1
     Population 65 years and over 657 100.0   Portuguese 15 0.3
With a disability 282 42.9   Russian 91 1.8
        Scotch-Irish 113 2.2
        Scottish 158 3.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 45 0.9
  Population 5 years and over 4,818 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 3,092 64.2   Swedish 18 0.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,680 34.9   Swiss 8 0.2
 Same county 1,008 20.9   Ukrainian 17 0.3
 Different county 672 13.9   United States or American 289 5.6
  Same state 494 10.3   Welsh 43 0.8
  Different state 178 3.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 1 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 46 1.0   Other ancestries 461 9.0
 
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.