DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Oswego 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 7,287 100.0
      enrolled in school 4,038 100.0   Native 7,096 97.4
Nursery school, preschool 39 1.0       Born in United States 7,071 97.0
Kindergarten 75 1.9           State of residence 6,208 85.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 597 14.8           Different state 863 11.8
High school (grades 9-12) 347 8.6       Born outside United States 25 0.3
College or graduate school 2,980 73.8   Foreign born 191 2.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 112 1.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 79 1.1
  Population 25 years and over 3,022 100.0       Not a citizen 112 1.5
Less than 9th grade 89 2.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 308 10.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,010 33.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 191 100.0
Some college, no degree 499 16.5   Europe 71 37.2
Associate degree 251 8.3   Asia 43 22.5
Bachelor's degree 465 15.4   Africa 6 3.1
Graduate or professional degree 400 13.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 58 30.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 86.9 (X)   Northern America 13 6.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 28.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 7,069 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,346 100.0   English only 6,568 92.9
Never married 2,154 33.9   Language other than English 501 7.1
Now married, except separated 3,507 55.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 142 2.0
Separated 75 1.2   Spanish 244 3.5
Widowed 253 4.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 74 1.0
 Female 142 2.2   Other Indo-European languages 179 2.5
Divorced 357 5.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 43 0.6
 Female 212 3.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 66 0.9
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 25 0.4
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 7,287 100.0
           under 18 years 65 100.0     Total ancestries reported 8,236 113.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 11 16.9   Arab 6 0.1
        Czech¹ 31 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 67 0.9
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,102 100.0   Dutch 208 2.9
Civilian veterans 515 8.4   English 1,048 14.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 320 4.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 159 2.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,384 19.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 3,217 100.0   Greek 21 0.3
With a disability 282 8.8   Hungarian 30 0.4
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,346 100.0   Irish¹ 1,587 21.8
With a disability 449 13.4   Italian 1,048 14.4
 Percent employed 51.4 (X)   Lithuanian 12 0.2
No disability 2,897 86.6   Norwegian 62 0.9
 Percent employed 69.3 (X)   Polish 552 7.6
     Population 65 years and over 499 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 191 38.3   Russian 109 1.5
        Scotch-Irish 124 1.7
        Scottish 152 2.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 7 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 7,069 N/A   Subsaharan African 6 0.1
Same house in 1995 3,839 54.3   Swedish 74 1.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,115 44.1   Swiss 16 0.2
 Same county 893 12.6   Ukrainian 33 0.5
 Different county 2,222 31.4   United States or American 363 5.0
  Same state 1,969 27.9   Welsh 113 1.6
  Different state 253 3.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 86 1.2
Elsewhere in 1995 115 1.6   Other ancestries 618 8.5
 
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.