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Alleghany County:Glade Creek 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 2,007 100.0
      enrolled in school 433 100.0   Native 1,896 94.5
Nursery school, preschool 38 8.8       Born in United States 1,896 94.5
Kindergarten 7 1.6           State of residence 1,210 60.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 219 50.6           Different state 686 34.2
High school (grades 9-12) 81 18.7       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 88 20.3   Foreign born 111 5.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 86 4.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 25 1.2
  Population 25 years and over 1,406 100.0       Not a citizen 86 4.3
Less than 9th grade 263 18.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 224 15.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 515 36.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 111 100.0
Some college, no degree 198 14.1   Europe 15 13.5
Associate degree 95 6.8   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 99 7.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 12 0.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 96 86.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 65.4 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 7.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,869 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,646 100.0   English only 1,711 91.5
Never married 234 14.2   Language other than English 158 8.5
Now married, except separated 1,107 67.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 82 4.4
Separated 35 2.1   Spanish 144 7.7
Widowed 154 9.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 75 4.0
 Female 134 8.1   Other Indo-European languages 14 0.7
Divorced 116 7.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 7 0.4
 Female 56 3.4   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 2,007 100.0
           under 18 years 25 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,404 70.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 25 100.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 7 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,574 100.0   Dutch 40 2.0
Civilian veterans 176 11.2   English 129 6.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 20 1.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 111 5.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 376 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 0 0.0   Hungarian 6 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,219 100.0   Irish¹ 97 4.8
With a disability 274 22.5   Italian 26 1.3
 Percent employed 59.9 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 945 77.5   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 74.4 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 274 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 149 54.4   Russian 7 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 55 2.7
        Scottish 19 0.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,869 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,223 65.4   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 553 29.6   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 321 17.2   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 232 12.4   United States or American 591 29.4
  Same state 169 9.0   Welsh 3 0.1
  Different state 63 3.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 16 0.8
Elsewhere in 1995 93 5.0   Other ancestries 277 13.8
             
-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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