DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Niskayuna 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 20,259 100.0
      enrolled in school 5,474 100.0   Native 18,369 90.7
Nursery school, preschool 409 7.5       Born in United States 18,278 90.2
Kindergarten 307 5.6           State of residence 14,132 69.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,523 46.1           Different state 4,146 20.5
High school (grades 9-12) 1,247 22.8       Born outside United States 91 0.4
College or graduate school 988 18.0   Foreign born 1,890 9.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 609 3.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,269 6.3
  Population 25 years and over 14,134 100.0       Not a citizen 621 3.1
Less than 9th grade 393 2.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 657 4.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,090 14.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,890 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,016 14.3   Europe 808 42.8
Associate degree 1,228 8.7   Asia 979 51.8
Bachelor's degree 3,628 25.7   Africa 20 1.1
Graduate or professional degree 4,122 29.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 57 3.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 92.6 (X)   Northern America 26 1.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 54.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 19,034 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 15,891 100.0   English only 16,825 88.4
Never married 3,082 19.4   Language other than English 2,209 11.6
Now married, except separated 10,460 65.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 601 3.2
Separated 303 1.9   Spanish 267 1.4
Widowed 990 6.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 68 0.4
 Female 815 5.1   Other Indo-European languages 1,089 5.7
Divorced 1,056 6.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 252 1.3
 Female 694 4.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 684 3.6
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 199 1.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 20,259 100.0
           under 18 years 192 100.0     Total ancestries reported 24,782 122.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 45 23.4   Arab 172 0.8
        Czech¹ 97 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 78 0.4
          Civilian population 18 years and over 14,973 100.0   Dutch 513 2.5
Civilian veterans 1,917 12.8   English 2,493 12.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 854 4.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 417 2.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,075 15.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 4,452 100.0   Greek 118 0.6
With a disability 227 5.1   Hungarian 325 1.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 11,040 100.0   Irish¹ 4,269 21.1
With a disability 1,183 10.7   Italian 3,985 19.7
 Percent employed 57.7 (X)   Lithuanian 114 0.6
No disability 9,857 89.3   Norwegian 165 0.8
 Percent employed 81.2 (X)   Polish 1,873 9.2
     Population 65 years and over 3,289 100.0   Portuguese 12 0.1
With a disability 955 29.0   Russian 669 3.3
        Scotch-Irish 244 1.2
        Scottish 557 2.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 42 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 19,034 100.0   Subsaharan African 7 0.0
Same house in 1995 12,863 67.6   Swedish 332 1.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 5,759 30.3   Swiss 101 0.5
 Same county 2,707 14.2   Ukrainian 159 0.8
 Different county 3,052 16.0   United States or American 767 3.8
  Same state 2,213 11.6   Welsh 119 0.6
  Different state 839 4.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 11 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 412 2.2   Other ancestries 3,214 15.9
 
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.