DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Schenectady 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 61,908 100.0
      enrolled in school 16,664 100.0   Native 57,865 93.5
Nursery school, preschool 1,053 6.3       Born in United States 56,688 91.6
Kindergarten 831 5.0           State of residence 48,478 78.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 7,238 43.4           Different state 8,210 13.3
High school (grades 9-12) 2,742 16.5       Born outside United States 1,177 1.9
College or graduate school 4,800 28.8   Foreign born 4,043 6.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,623 2.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 2,241 3.6
  Population 25 years and over 39,762 100.0       Not a citizen 1,802 2.9
Less than 9th grade 2,485 6.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 6,333 15.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 12,941 32.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 4,043 100.0
Some college, no degree 7,078 17.8   Europe 1,639 40.5
Associate degree 3,373 8.5   Asia 952 23.5
Bachelor's degree 4,460 11.2   Africa 245 6.1
Graduate or professional degree 3,092 7.8   Oceania 25 0.6
        Latin America 1,013 25.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 77.8 (X)   Northern America 169 4.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 19.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 57,624 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 48,888 100.0   English only 50,187 87.1
Never married 17,370 35.5   Language other than English 7,437 12.9
Now married, except separated 19,496 39.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2,423 4.2
Separated 2,173 4.4   Spanish 2,727 4.7
Widowed 4,507 9.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 862 1.5
 Female 3,704 7.6   Other Indo-European languages 3,699 6.4
Divorced 5,342 10.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,158 2.0
 Female 3,150 6.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 558 1.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 226 0.4
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 61,908 100.0
           under 18 years 823 100.0     Total ancestries reported 70,134 113.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 376 45.7   Arab 283 0.5
        Czech¹ 267 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 188 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 46,791 100.0   Dutch 2,070 3.3
Civilian veterans 5,855 12.5   English 4,604 7.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 3,700 6.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 1,077 1.7
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 7,554 12.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 13,831 100.0   Greek 261 0.4
With a disability 1,627 11.8   Hungarian 397 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 33,958 100.0   Irish¹ 9,795 15.8
With a disability 8,917 26.3   Italian 12,168 19.7
 Percent employed 54.1 (X)   Lithuanian 265 0.4
No disability 25,041 73.7   Norwegian 168 0.3
 Percent employed 77.4 (X)   Polish 5,568 9.0
     Population 65 years and over 8,658 100.0   Portuguese 57 0.1
With a disability 3,619 41.8   Russian 690 1.1
        Scotch-Irish 565 0.9
        Scottish 1,010 1.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 119 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 57,624 100.0   Subsaharan African 771 1.2
Same house in 1995 28,444 49.4   Swedish 338 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 27,825 48.3   Swiss 104 0.2
 Same county 16,967 29.4   Ukrainian 290 0.5
 Different county 10,858 18.8   United States or American 1,686 2.7
  Same state 8,015 13.9   Welsh 277 0.4
  Different state 2,843 4.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 491 0.8
Elsewhere in 1995 1,355 2.4   Other ancestries 15,371 24.8
 
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.