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Alleghany County:Cranberry Township:2000

DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics

Subject Number Percent   Subject Number Percent
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT       NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH    
     Population 3 years and over            Total poplulation 415 100.0
      enrolled in school 66 100.0   Native 415 100.0
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 415 100.0
Kindergarten 5 7.6           State of residence 315 75.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 39 59.1           Different state 100 24.1
High school (grades 9-12) 10 15.2       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 12 18.2   Foreign born 0 0.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 317 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 70 22.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 59 18.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 84 26.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 0 N/A
Some college, no degree 76 24.0   Europe 0 N/A
Associate degree 5 1.6   Asia 0 N/A
Bachelor's degree 18 5.7   Africa 0 N/A
Graduate or professional degree 5 1.6   Oceania 0 N/A
        Latin America 0 N/A
Percent high school graduate or higher 59.3 (X)   Northern America 0 N/A
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 7.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 409 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 365 100.0   English only 409 100.0
Never married 39 10.7   Language other than English 0 0.0
Now married, except separated 284 77.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 5 1.4   Spanish 0 0.0
Widowed 20 5.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 20 5.5   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 17 4.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 13 3.6   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 415 100.0
           under 18 years 0 N/A     Total ancestries reported 290 69.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 N/A   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 355 100.0   Dutch 0 0.0
Civilian veterans 38 10.7   English 70 16.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 0 0.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 32 7.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 78 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 7 9.0   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 236 100.0   Irish¹ 31 7.5
With a disability 64 27.1   Italian 7 1.7
 Percent employed 17.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 172 72.9   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 79.7 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 95 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 41 43.2   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 0 0.0
        Scottish 0 0.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 409 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 324 79.2   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 85 20.8   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 32 7.8   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 53 13.0   United States or American 108 26.0
  Same state 23 5.6   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 30 7.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 42 10.1
             
-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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