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Mitchell County:Bakersville 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 1,643 100.0
      enrolled in school 338 100.0   Native 1,614 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 9 2.7       Born in United States 1,596 97.1
Kindergarten 14 4.1           State of residence 1,175 71.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 196 58.0           Different state 421 25.6
High school (grades 9-12) 85 25.1       Born outside United States 18 1.1
College or graduate school 34 10.1   Foreign born 29 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 17 1.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 6 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 1,131 100.0       Not a citizen 23 1.4
Less than 9th grade 169 14.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 216 19.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 415 36.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 29 100.0
Some college, no degree 148 13.1   Europe 3 10.3
Associate degree 35 3.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 101 8.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 47 4.2   Oceania 4 13.8
        Latin America 22 75.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 66.0 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 13.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,550 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,332 100.0   English only 1,455 93.9
Never married 223 16.7   Language other than English 95 6.1
Now married, except separated 851 63.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 28 1.8
Separated 28 2.1   Spanish 76 4.9
Widowed 97 7.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 23 1.5
 Female 87 6.5   Other Indo-European languages 15 1.0
Divorced 133 10.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.3
 Female 65 4.9   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 1,643 100.0
           under 18 years 7 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,022 62.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 2 28.6   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 2 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 2 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,264 100.0   Dutch 31 1.9
Civilian veterans 153 12.1   English 149 9.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 15 0.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 121 7.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 353 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 30 8.5   Hungarian 4 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 900 100.0   Irish¹ 92 5.6
With a disability 297 33.0   Italian 11 0.7
 Percent employed 60.9 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 603 67.0   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 78.9 (X)   Polish 21 1.3
     Population 65 years and over 282 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 181 64.2   Russian 1 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 130 7.9
        Scottish 69 4.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 1 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 1,550 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,052 67.9   Swedish 4 0.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 468 30.2   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 290 18.7   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 178 11.5   United States or American 234 14.2
  Same state 96 6.2   Welsh 8 0.5
  Different state 82 5.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 30 1.9   Other ancestries 127 7.7
             
-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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