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Alleghany County:Gap Civil 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 4,217 100.0
      enrolled in school 742 100.0   Native 4,011 95.1
Nursery school, preschool 59 8.0       Born in United States 3,998 94.8
Kindergarten 55 7.4           State of residence 2,705 64.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 348 46.9           Different state 1,293 30.7
High school (grades 9-12) 171 23.0       Born outside United States 13 0.3
College or graduate school 109 14.7   Foreign born 206 4.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 162 3.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 54 1.3
  Population 25 years and over 3,081 100.0       Not a citizen 152 3.6
Less than 9th grade 476 15.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 601 19.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 895 29.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 206 100.0
Some college, no degree 548 17.8   Europe 18 8.7
Associate degree 170 5.5   Asia 34 16.5
Bachelor's degree 270 8.8   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 121 3.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 154 74.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 65.0 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,974 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 3,540 100.0   English only 3,715 93.5
Never married 560 15.8   Language other than English 259 6.5
Now married, except separated 2,067 58.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 153 3.9
Separated 101 2.9   Spanish 202 5.1
Widowed 415 11.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 124 3.1
 Female 327 9.2   Other Indo-European languages 34 0.9
Divorced 397 11.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 11 0.3
 Female 253 7.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 23 0.6
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 18 0.5
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 4,217 100.0
           under 18 years 29 100.0     Total ancestries reported 3,027 71.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 17 58.6   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 10 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 3,392 100.0   Dutch 45 1.1
Civilian veterans 439 12.9   English 491 11.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 40 0.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 290 6.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 727 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 59 8.1   Hungarian 12 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,284 100.0   Irish¹ 322 7.6
With a disability 441 19.3   Italian 7 0.2
 Percent employed 48.5 (X)   Lithuanian 4 0.1
No disability 1,843 80.7   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 80.6 (X)   Polish 34 0.8
     Population 65 years and over 813 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 428 52.6   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 176 4.2
        Scottish 21 0.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 3,974 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,312 58.2   Swedish 10 0.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,563 39.3   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 916 23.0   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 647 16.3   United States or American 1,081 25.6
  Same state 297 7.5   Welsh 12 0.3
  Different state 350 8.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 99 2.5   Other ancestries 472 11.2
             
-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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