DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Amboy 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 1,325 100.0
      enrolled in school 340 100.0   Native 1,307 98.6
Nursery school, preschool 8 2.4       Born in United States 1,302 98.3
Kindergarten 21 6.2           State of residence 1,204 90.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 198 58.2           Different state 98 7.4
High school (grades 9-12) 91 26.8       Born outside United States 5 0.4
College or graduate school 22 6.5   Foreign born 18 1.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 8 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 10 0.8
  Population 25 years and over 816 100.0       Not a citizen 8 0.6
Less than 9th grade 51 6.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 189 23.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 372 45.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 18 100.0
Some college, no degree 87 10.7   Europe 5 27.8
Associate degree 56 6.9   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 45 5.5   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 16 2.0   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 70.6 (X)   Northern America 13 72.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 7.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,237 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 980 100.0   English only 1,207 97.6
Never married 232 23.7   Language other than English 30 2.4
Now married, except separated 571 58.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 12 1.0
Separated 25 2.6   Spanish 10 0.8
Widowed 57 5.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.4
 Female 42 4.3   Other Indo-European languages 18 1.5
Divorced 95 9.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 7 0.6
 Female 49 5.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2 0.2
                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 1,325 100.0
           under 18 years 29 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,371 103.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 20 69.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 5 0.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 923 100.0   Dutch 33 2.5
Civilian veterans 147 15.9   English 179 13.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 136 10.3
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 56 4.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 188 14.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 367 100.0   Greek 1 0.1
With a disability 28 7.6   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 724 100.0   Irish¹ 171 12.9
With a disability 193 26.7   Italian 105 7.9
 Percent employed 56.0 (X)   Lithuanian 2 0.2
No disability 531 73.3   Norwegian 7 0.5
 Percent employed 70.8 (X)   Polish 78 5.9
     Population 65 years and over 146 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 67 45.9   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 10 0.8
        Scottish 36 2.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,237 N/A   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 835 67.5   Swedish 6 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 400 32.3   Swiss 2 0.2
 Same county 248 20.0   Ukrainian 6 0.5
 Different county 152 12.3   United States or American 217 16.4
  Same state 118 9.5   Welsh 9 0.7
  Different state 34 2.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 2 0.2   Other ancestries 124 9.4
 
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.