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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Otsego County
[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 23,301 100.0
      enrolled in school 5,748 100.0   Native 22,934 98.4
Nursery school, preschool 315 5.5       Born in United States 22,803 97.9
Kindergarten 399 6.9           State of residence 19,472 83.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,921 50.8           Different state 3,331 14.3
High school (grades 9-12) 1,579 27.5       Born outside United States 131 0.6
College or graduate school 534 9.3   Foreign born 367 1.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 77 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 219 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 15,468 100.0       Not a citizen 148 0.6
Less than 9th grade 585 3.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,665 10.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 5,629 36.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 367 100.0
Some college, no degree 3,877 25.1   Europe 167 45.5
Associate degree 1,021 6.6   Asia 79 21.5
Bachelor's degree 1,849 12.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 842 5.4   Oceania 2 0.5
        Latin America 5 1.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 85.5 (X)   Northern America 114 31.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 17.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 21,844 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 18,195 100.0   English only 21,024 96.2
Never married 3,684 20.2   Language other than English 820 3.8
Now married, except separated 11,398 62.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 274 1.3
Separated 239 1.3   Spanish 197 0.9
Widowed 1,124 6.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 71 0.3
 Female 859 4.7   Other Indo-European languages 540 2.5
Divorced 1,750 9.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 132 0.6
 Female 913 5.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 67 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 60 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 23,301 100.0
           under 18 years 275 100.0     Total ancestries reported 26,037 111.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 74 26.9   Arab 55 0.2
        Czech¹ 173 0.7
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 129 0.6
          Civilian population 18 years and over 17,067 100.0   Dutch 620 2.7
Civilian veterans 2,614 15.3   English 2,821 12.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,334 5.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 825 3.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 6,045 25.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 5,476 100.0   Greek 44 0.2
With a disability 483 8.8   Hungarian 271 1.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 13,081 100.0   Irish¹ 3,002 12.9
With a disability 2,075 15.9   Italian 687 2.9
 Percent employed 56.4 (X)   Lithuanian 46 0.2
No disability 11,006 84.1   Norwegian 251 1.1
 Percent employed 77.6 (X)   Polish 3,859 16.6
     Population 65 years and over 3,141 100.0   Portuguese 17 0.1
With a disability 1,125 35.8   Russian 66 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 290 1.2
        Scottish 570 2.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 50 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 21,844 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 12,146 55.6   Swedish 491 2.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 9,604 44.0   Swiss 46 0.2
 Same county 4,245 19.4   Ukrainian 82 0.4
 Different county 5,359 24.5   United States or American 1,697 7.3
  Same state 4,242 19.4   Welsh 221 0.9
  Different state 1,117 5.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 6 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 94 0.4   Other ancestries 2,339 10.0
 
Date: July 7, 2006
 
-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.
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