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 Buffalo--Niagara Falls, NY MSA
Data followed by an * indicates a Significant Difference at the 90 percent level between that data and the data from the most current year.  Data followed by a "c" indicates the estimate for that year and the current year are both controlled; a statistical test is not appropriate.
TABLE 2. SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS
  2003
Estimate		 2002
Estimate		 2001
Estimate		 2000
Estimate
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school
295,752
303,089
292,277
309,872 *
Nursery school, preschool
6.72%
5.25%
4.97% *
6.80%
Kindergarten
4.23%
4.58%
5.31%
4.29%
Elementary school (grades 1-8)
41.31%
42.66%
44.47% *
43.14%
High school grade (grades 9-12)
23.30%
22.54%
22.04%
20.56% *
College or graduate school
24.44%
24.97%
23.21%
25.21%
 
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over
762,805
753,725 *
761,503
764,255
Less than 9th grade
4.07%
4.15%
3.79%
5.00%
9th to 12th grade, no diploma
9.38%
10.63%
12.63% *
10.35%
High school graduate (including equivalency)
32.20%
31.90%
32.81%
32.38%
Some college, no degree
17.51%
19.63% *
17.23%
18.56%
Associate degree
11.38%
9.51% *
10.92%
9.82% *
Bachelor's degree
14.47%
14.55%
12.60% *
13.56%
Graduate or professional degree
11.00%
9.63%
10.03%
10.33%
 
Percent high school graduate or higher
86.5
85.2
83.6 *
84.7 *
Percent bachelor's degree or higher
25.5
24.2
22.6 *
23.9
 
MARITAL STATUS
Males 15 years and over
426,192
426,675
423,374
418,269 *
Never married
34.09%
33.18%
33.40%
31.40% *
Now married, except separated
52.37%
53.87%
55.08%
54.97%
Separated
2.11%
2.01%
1.08% *
2.02%
Widowed
3.54%
2.99%
3.41%
3.36%
Divorced
7.89%
7.95%
7.03%
8.26%
 
Females 15 years and over
482,903
479,177
476,314 *
482,627
Never married
29.06%
25.05% *
25.00% *
27.42%
Now married, except separated
46.75%
50.28% *
50.70% *
46.95%
Separated
2.01%
2.41%
2.67%
2.34%
Widowed
11.93%
12.52%
12.28%
12.73%
Divorced
10.25%
9.74%
9.36%
10.57%
 
FERTILITY
Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months
15,753
12,580
18,592
14,285
Unmarried women (widowed, divorced, and never married)
37.17%
21.26%
39.28%
35.23%
Per 1,000 unmarried women
37
20
54
33
As a percent of all women with a birth
37.2
21.3
39.3
35.2
Per 1,000 women 15 to 50 years old
54
44
65
49
Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old
17
35
37
23
Per 1,000 women 20 to 34 years old
110
84
119
99
Per 1,000 women 35 to 50 years old
24
17
35
18
 
GRANDPARENTS
Number of grandparents with own grandchildren under 18 years in households
18,162
21,223
23,674
20,352
Responsible for grandchildren
58.09%
45.23%
58.83%
39.59% *
 
Characteristics of grandparents responsible for own grandchildren under 18 years
Percent Responsible for grandchildren
less than 1 year
19.33%
16.66%
39.22%
11.00%
1 or 2 years
26.85%
39.75%
44.56%
11.33%
3 or 4 years
22.53%
21.68%
0.00% *
41.20%
5 or more years
31.30%
21.91%
16.22%
36.47%
 
Percent who are female
53.8
58.6
57.5
64.4
Percent who are married
64.8
78.8
79.2
61.3
Percent who are in labor force
64.6
55.2
65.9
53.8
Percent who are in poverty
10.5
9.4
13.9
17.8
 
VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over
858,529
854,518 *
852,692 *
853,054 *
Civilian veterans
12.73%
12.75%
13.36%
14.38% *
 
RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO
Population 1 year and over
1,110,416
1,117,394 *
1,111,792
1,125,589 *
Same house
88.75%
88.53%
88.34%
86.97%
Different house in the U.S.
11.09%
11.41%
11.53%
12.70%
Same county
8.63%
9.15%
9.60%
9.78%
Different county
2.47%
2.26%
1.93%
2.92%
Same state
1.34%
1.13%
0.89%
2.16%
Different state
1.13%
1.12%
1.04%
0.76%
Abroad
0.16%
0.06%
0.13%
0.33%
 
PLACE OF BIRTH, CITIZENSHIP, AND YEAR OF ENTRY
Total population
1,123,603
1,127,495 c
1,127,921 c
1,135,102 c
Native
94.58%
95.14%
95.79%
94.68%
Born in United States
93.32%
94.28%
94.43%
93.48%
State of residence
82.23%
81.09%
84.31% *
80.92%
Different state
11.09%
13.19% *
10.12%
12.57% *
Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s)
1.26%
0.86% *
1.36%
1.20%
Foreign born
5.42%
4.86%
4.21%
5.32%
Naturalized citizen
56.38%
59.98%
54.69%
58.76%
Not a citizen
43.62%
40.02%
45.31%
41.24%
Entered 1990 or later
43.24%
38.18%
34.19%
27.29%
Entered before 1990
56.76%
61.82%
65.81%
72.71%
 
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Foreign-born population with region of birth reported
60,939
54,828
47,540
60,385
Europe
36.09%
37.15%
50.53% *
37.52%
Asia
30.07%
32.67%
29.76%
36.26%
Africa
13.22%
2.99%
0.53%
0.68%
Oceania
0.00%
0.22%
0.53%
0.32%
Latin America
6.94%
13.51%
5.00%
7.01%
Northern America
13.68%
13.45%
13.65%
18.21%
 
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over
1,059,067
1,059,706
1,058,367
1,063,934 *
English only
91.63%
91.42%
91.88%
91.05%
Language other than English
8.37%
8.58%
8.12%
8.95%
Speak English less than "very well"
2.41%
2.56%
2.54%
3.01%
Spanish
2.32%
2.95% *
2.74%
2.34%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.83%
0.87%
0.64%
0.76%
Other Indo-European languages
4.01%
4.02%
4.24%
4.29%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.89%
0.92%
1.27%
1.15%
Asian and Pacific Islander languages
1.01%
0.82%
0.75%
1.27%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.57%
0.32%
0.49%
0.77%
Other languages
1.03%
0.79%
0.39%
1.05%
Speak English less than "very well"
0.12%
0.44%
0.13%
0.33%
 
ANCESTRY (TOTAL REPORTED)
Total Population
1,123,603
1,127,495 c
1,127,921 c
1,135,102 c
Arab
1.17%
1.28%
0.45% *
1.60%
Czech
0.28%
0.53%
0.23%
0.10%
Danish
0.17%
0.24%
0.29%
0.16%
Dutch
1.29%
1.23%
0.92%
1.44%
English
8.93%
10.14%
9.58%
9.50%
French (except Basque)
2.83%
3.50%
2.97%
3.32%
French Canadian
0.79%
1.13%
0.55%
0.79%
German
28.53%
29.61%
30.54%
30.36%
Greek
0.43%
0.30%
0.72%
0.18%
Hungarian
1.08%
1.00%
1.19%
0.96%
Irish
17.49%
18.87%
17.34%
17.95%
Italian
17.66%
16.67%
18.48%
16.50%
Lithuanian
0.18%
0.27%
0.16%
0.22%
Norwegian
0.26%
0.29%
0.37%
0.36%
Polish
18.63%
18.75%
20.32%
16.87%
Portuguese
0.21%
0.04%
0.09%
0.05%
Russian
1.04%
0.61%
0.95%
0.91%
Scotch-Irish
0.81%
1.07%
0.80%
1.15%
Scottish
1.79%
2.00%
1.87%
1.74%
Slovak
0.09%
0.36% *
0.25% *
0.25%
Subsaharan African
0.82%
0.54%
0.17%
0.38%
Swedish
0.60%
0.87%
0.78%
1.30% *
Swiss
0.24%
0.35%
0.27%
0.22%
Ukrainian
0.78%
0.96%
0.67%
1.07%
United States or American
2.09%
2.43%
2.71%
2.95%
Welsh
0.53%
0.32%
0.80%
0.70%
West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)
0.15%
0.14%
0.09%
0.48%
 
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Ancestry listed in this table refers to the total number of reports; for example, the estimate given for Russian represents the number of people who listed Russian as either their first or second ancestry. This table lists only the largest ancestry groups; see the Detailed Tables for more categories. Race and Hispanic origin groups are not included in this table because official data for those groups come from the Race and Hispanic origin questions rather than the ancestry question (see Table 1).

1. An '-' entry in an Estimate column indicates that no sample observations were available to compute an estimate.
2. An '-' following a median estimate means the median falls in the lowest interval of an open-ended distribution.
3. An '+' following a median estimate means the median falls in the upper interval of an open-ended distribution.
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