DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Volney 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 6,094 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,749 100.0   Native 6,016 98.7
Nursery school, preschool 63 3.6       Born in United States 5,990 98.3
Kindergarten 98 5.6           State of residence 5,608 92.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 829 47.4           Different state 382 6.3
High school (grades 9-12) 440 25.2       Born outside United States 26 0.4
College or graduate school 319 18.2   Foreign born 78 1.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 40 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 71 1.2
  Population 25 years and over 3,819 100.0       Not a citizen 7 0.1
Less than 9th grade 109 2.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 467 12.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,643 43.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 78 100.0
Some college, no degree 661 17.3   Europe 55 70.5
Associate degree 272 7.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 529 13.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 138 3.6   Oceania 7 9.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 84.9 (X)   Northern America 16 20.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 17.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 5,690 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,732 100.0   English only 5,579 98.0
Never married 1,237 26.1   Language other than English 111 2.0
Now married, except separated 2,684 56.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 56 1.0
Separated 186 3.9   Spanish 33 0.6
Widowed 224 4.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 20 0.4
 Female 174 3.7   Other Indo-European languages 78 1.4
Divorced 401 8.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 36 0.6
 Female 199 4.2   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 6,094 100.0
           under 18 years 117 100.0     Total ancestries reported 6,921 113.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 90 76.9   Arab 7 0.1
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 42 0.7
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,343 100.0   Dutch 186 3.1
Civilian veterans 561 12.9   English 1,199 19.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 502 8.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 310 5.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 947 15.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,550 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 79 5.1   Hungarian 14 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,552 100.0   Irish¹ 1,015 16.7
With a disability 616 17.3   Italian 977 16.0
 Percent employed 62.8 (X)   Lithuanian 43 0.7
No disability 2,936 82.7   Norwegian 12 0.2
 Percent employed 76.3 (X)   Polish 397 6.5
     Population 65 years and over 582 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 205 35.2   Russian 13 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 25 0.4
        Scottish 160 2.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 5,690 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 3,882 68.2   Swedish 26 0.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,801 31.7   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 1,309 23.0   Ukrainian 111 1.8
 Different county 492 8.6   United States or American 447 7.3
  Same state 256 4.5   Welsh 37 0.6
  Different state 236 4.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 7 0.1   Other ancestries 451 7.4
 
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.