DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Duanesburg 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 5,808 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,483 100.0   Native 5,696 98.1
Nursery school, preschool 33 2.2       Born in United States 5,655 97.4
Kindergarten 52 3.5           State of residence 4,794 82.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 804 54.2           Different state 861 14.8
High school (grades 9-12) 404 27.2       Born outside United States 41 0.7
College or graduate school 190 12.8   Foreign born 112 1.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 15 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 57 1.0
  Population 25 years and over 3,930 100.0       Not a citizen 55 0.9
Less than 9th grade 110 2.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 280 7.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,272 32.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 112 100.0
Some college, no degree 696 17.7   Europe 92 82.1
Associate degree 626 15.9   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 518 13.2   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 428 10.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 20 17.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 90.1 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 24.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 5,483 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,522 100.0   English only 5,226 95.3
Never married 822 18.2   Language other than English 257 4.7
Now married, except separated 3,146 69.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 54 1.0
Separated 90 2.0   Spanish 113 2.1
Widowed 193 4.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.2
 Female 129 2.9   Other Indo-European languages 117 2.1
Divorced 271 6.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 29 0.5
 Female 131 2.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 3 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 5,808 100.0
           under 18 years 112 100.0     Total ancestries reported 7,256 124.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 35 31.3   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 29 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 6 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,245 100.0   Dutch 358 6.2
Civilian veterans 527 12.4   English 941 16.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 536 9.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 132 2.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,224 21.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,407 100.0   Greek 20 0.3
With a disability 74 5.3   Hungarian 86 1.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,540 100.0   Irish¹ 1,099 18.9
With a disability 403 11.4   Italian 981 16.9
 Percent employed 66.0 (X)   Lithuanian 7 0.1
No disability 3,137 88.6   Norwegian 58 1.0
 Percent employed 83.7 (X)   Polish 371 6.4
     Population 65 years and over 532 100.0   Portuguese 8 0.1
With a disability 119 22.4   Russian 43 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 81 1.4
        Scottish 210 3.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 5,483 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 4,118 75.1   Swedish 41 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,344 24.5   Swiss 33 0.6
 Same county 731 13.3   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 613 11.2   United States or American 292 5.0
  Same state 467 8.5   Welsh 136 2.3
  Different state 146 2.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 21 0.4   Other ancestries 564 9.7
 
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.