DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cortlandville 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 7,919 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,006 100.0   Native 7,762 98.0
Nursery school, preschool 108 5.4       Born in United States 7,707 97.3
Kindergarten 133 6.6           State of residence 6,587 83.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 823 41.0           Different state 1,120 14.1
High school (grades 9-12) 428 21.3       Born outside United States 55 0.7
College or graduate school 514 25.6   Foreign born 157 2.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 43 0.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 106 1.3
  Population 25 years and over 5,335 100.0       Not a citizen 51 0.6
Less than 9th grade 236 4.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 603 11.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,908 35.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 157 100.0
Some college, no degree 898 16.8   Europe 115 73.2
Associate degree 634 11.9   Asia 17 10.8
Bachelor's degree 554 10.4   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 502 9.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 9 5.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 84.3 (X)   Northern America 16 10.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 19.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 7,447 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,410 100.0   English only 7,128 95.7
Never married 1,661 25.9   Language other than English 319 4.3
Now married, except separated 3,608 56.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 94 1.3
Separated 174 2.7   Spanish 54 0.7
Widowed 453 7.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 19 0.3
 Female 349 5.4   Other Indo-European languages 229 3.1
Divorced 514 8.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 75 1.0
 Female 312 4.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 7,919 100.0
           under 18 years 96 100.0     Total ancestries reported 8,615 108.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 38 39.6   Arab 41 0.5
        Czech¹ 22 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 13 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,099 100.0   Dutch 439 5.5
Civilian veterans 913 15.0   English 1,507 19.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 456 5.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 81 1.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,259 15.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,695 100.0   Greek 29 0.4
With a disability 84 5.0   Hungarian 14 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,554 100.0   Irish¹ 1,474 18.6
With a disability 874 19.2   Italian 958 12.1
 Percent employed 56.5 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 3,680 80.8   Norwegian 55 0.7
 Percent employed 76.8 (X)   Polish 196 2.5
     Population 65 years and over 1,173 100.0   Portuguese 7 0.1
With a disability 367 31.3   Russian 36 0.5
        Scotch-Irish 116 1.5
        Scottish 149 1.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 8 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 7,447 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 4,280 57.5   Swedish 139 1.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,093 41.5   Swiss 18 0.2
 Same county 2,253 30.3   Ukrainian 60 0.8
 Different county 840 11.3   United States or American 680 8.6
  Same state 578 7.8   Welsh 123 1.6
  Different state 262 3.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 9 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 74 1.0   Other ancestries 726 9.2
 
Date: May 22, 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.