DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lysander 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 19,285 100.0
      enrolled in school 5,257 100.0   Native 18,787 97.4
Nursery school, preschool 410 7.8       Born in United States 18,732 97.1
Kindergarten 223 4.2           State of residence 15,520 80.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,742 52.2           Different state 3,212 16.7
High school (grades 9-12) 1,196 22.8       Born outside United States 55 0.3
College or graduate school 686 13.0   Foreign born 498 2.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 144 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 377 2.0
  Population 25 years and over 12,649 100.0       Not a citizen 121 0.6
Less than 9th grade 211 1.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 830 6.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 3,348 26.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 498 100.0
Some college, no degree 2,228 17.6   Europe 160 32.1
Associate degree 1,350 10.7   Asia 177 35.5
Bachelor's degree 2,739 21.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 1,943 15.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 37 7.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 91.8 (X)   Northern America 124 24.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 37.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 17,891 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 14,645 100.0   English only 17,168 96.0
Never married 2,996 20.5   Language other than English 723 4.0
Now married, except separated 9,535 65.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 183 1.0
Separated 277 1.9   Spanish 240 1.3
Widowed 690 4.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 75 0.4
 Female 577 3.9   Other Indo-European languages 447 2.5
Divorced 1,147 7.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 90 0.5
 Female 671 4.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 36 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 18 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 19,285 100.0
           under 18 years 175 100.0     Total ancestries reported 23,938 124.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 67 38.3   Arab 14 0.1
        Czech¹ 101 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 8 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 13,691 100.0   Dutch 754 3.9
Civilian veterans 1,860 13.6   English 3,756 19.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,121 5.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 388 2.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 4,460 23.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 4,675 100.0   Greek 42 0.2
With a disability 267 5.7   Hungarian 70 0.4
     Population 21 to 64 years 11,241 100.0   Irish¹ 4,553 23.6
With a disability 1,200 10.7   Italian 3,108 16.1
 Percent employed 62.5 (X)   Lithuanian 24 0.1
No disability 10,041 89.3   Norwegian 91 0.5
 Percent employed 83.0 (X)   Polish 1,396 7.2
     Population 65 years and over 1,954 100.0   Portuguese 86 0.4
With a disability 577 29.5   Russian 227 1.2
        Scotch-Irish 279 1.4
        Scottish 399 2.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 18 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 17,891 N/A   Subsaharan African 7 0.0
Same house in 1995 11,281 63.1   Swedish 240 1.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 6,540 36.6   Swiss 95 0.5
 Same county 4,355 24.3   Ukrainian 204 1.1
 Different county 2,185 12.2   United States or American 795 4.1
  Same state 1,174 6.6   Welsh 208 1.1
  Different state 1,011 5.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 70 0.4   Other ancestries 1,494 7.7
 
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.