DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Scotia village
[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 7,957 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,100 100.0   Native 7,776 97.7
Nursery school, preschool 120 5.7       Born in United States 7,752 97.4
Kindergarten 136 6.5           State of residence 6,962 87.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,029 49.0           Different state 790 9.9
High school (grades 9-12) 489 23.3       Born outside United States 24 0.3
College or graduate school 326 15.5   Foreign born 181 2.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 42 0.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 88 1.1
  Population 25 years and over 5,402 100.0       Not a citizen 93 1.2
Less than 9th grade 139 2.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 537 9.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,670 30.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 181 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,109 20.5   Europe 55 30.4
Associate degree 638 11.8   Asia 73 40.3
Bachelor's degree 753 13.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 556 10.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 25 13.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 87.5 (X)   Northern America 28 15.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 24.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 7,460 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,234 100.0   English only 6,991 93.7
Never married 1,467 23.5   Language other than English 469 6.3
Now married, except separated 3,311 53.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 82 1.1
Separated 188 3.0   Spanish 130 1.7
Widowed 643 10.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.1
 Female 558 9.0   Other Indo-European languages 285 3.8
Divorced 625 10.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 48 0.6
 Female 449 7.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 54 0.7
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 25 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 7,957 100.0
           under 18 years 41 100.0     Total ancestries reported 10,789 135.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 10 24.4   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 169 2.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 53 0.7
          Civilian population 18 years and over 5,865 100.0   Dutch 460 5.8
Civilian veterans 761 13.0   English 1,128 14.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 882 11.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 283 3.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,516 19.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,820 100.0   Greek 69 0.9
With a disability 137 7.5   Hungarian 55 0.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,296 100.0   Irish¹ 1,850 23.2
With a disability 572 13.3   Italian 1,508 19.0
 Percent employed 64.0 (X)   Lithuanian 46 0.6
No disability 3,724 86.7   Norwegian 59 0.7
 Percent employed 82.4 (X)   Polish 849 10.7
     Population 65 years and over 1,046 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 398 38.0   Russian 105 1.3
        Scotch-Irish 157 2.0
        Scottish 250 3.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 53 0.7
  Population 5 years and over 7,460 100.0   Subsaharan African 24 0.3
Same house in 1995 4,481 60.1   Swedish 85 1.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,877 38.6   Swiss 48 0.6
 Same county 1,996 26.8   Ukrainian 8 0.1
 Different county 881 11.8   United States or American 246 3.1
  Same state 603 8.1   Welsh 49 0.6
  Different state 278 3.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 102 1.4   Other ancestries 837 10.5
 
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.