DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: DeRuyter 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 1,449 100.0
      enrolled in school 362 100.0   Native 1,422 98.1
Nursery school, preschool 14 3.9       Born in United States 1,422 98.1
Kindergarten 24 6.6           State of residence 1,272 87.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 163 45.0           Different state 150 10.4
High school (grades 9-12) 116 32.0       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 45 12.4   Foreign born 27 1.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 4 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 19 1.3
  Population 25 years and over 968 100.0       Not a citizen 8 0.6
Less than 9th grade 31 3.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 114 11.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 377 38.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 27 100.0
Some college, no degree 190 19.6   Europe 17 63.0
Associate degree 102 10.5   Asia 7 25.9
Bachelor's degree 95 9.8   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 59 6.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 85.0 (X)   Northern America 3 11.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,358 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,150 100.0   English only 1,307 96.2
Never married 290 25.2   Language other than English 51 3.8
Now married, except separated 625 54.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 13 1.0
Separated 29 2.5   Spanish 4 0.3
Widowed 84 7.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 66 5.7   Other Indo-European languages 41 3.0
Divorced 122 10.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 11 0.8
 Female 74 6.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 6 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 1,449 100.0
           under 18 years 24 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,587 109.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 9 37.5   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 4 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 11 0.8
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,078 100.0   Dutch 65 4.5
Civilian veterans 154 14.3   English 320 22.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 72 5.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 74 5.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 298 20.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 338 100.0   Greek 7 0.5
With a disability 41 12.1   Hungarian 10 0.7
     Population 21 to 64 years 791 100.0   Irish¹ 236 16.3
With a disability 171 21.6   Italian 99 6.8
 Percent employed 62.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 620 78.4   Norwegian 13 0.9
 Percent employed 80.8 (X)   Polish 48 3.3
     Population 65 years and over 229 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 90 39.3   Russian 2 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 22 1.5
        Scottish 40 2.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,358 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 933 68.7   Swedish 7 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 411 30.3   Swiss 13 0.9
 Same county 196 14.4   Ukrainian 11 0.8
 Different county 215 15.8   United States or American 104 7.2
  Same state 161 11.9   Welsh 54 3.7
  Different state 54 4.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 14 1.0   Other ancestries 77 5.3
 
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.