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Mitchell County:Fork Mountain-Little Rock 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 728 100.0
      enrolled in school 135 100.0   Native 719 98.8
Nursery school, preschool 2 1.5       Born in United States 715 98.2
Kindergarten 11 8.1           State of residence 549 75.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 53 39.3           Different state 166 22.8
High school (grades 9-12) 45 33.3       Born outside United States 4 0.5
College or graduate school 24 17.8   Foreign born 9 1.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 9 1.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 556 100.0       Not a citizen 9 1.2
Less than 9th grade 145 26.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 85 15.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 191 34.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 9 100.0
Some college, no degree 77 13.8   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 28 5.0   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 22 4.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 8 1.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 9 100.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 58.6 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 5.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 717 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 653 100.0   English only 708 98.7
Never married 126 19.3   Language other than English 9 1.3
Now married, except separated 375 57.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 0 0.0   Spanish 0 0.0
Widowed 74 11.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 51 7.8   Other Indo-European languages 9 1.3
Divorced 78 11.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 37 5.7   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 728 100.0
           under 18 years 5 100.0     Total ancestries reported 415 57.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 5 100.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 608 100.0   Dutch 2 0.3
Civilian veterans 75 12.3   English 68 9.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 0 0.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 4 0.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 29 4.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 115 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 18 15.7   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 446 100.0   Irish¹ 44 6.0
With a disability 107 24.0   Italian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 37.4 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 339 76.0   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 79.9 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 156 100.0   Portuguese 3 0.4
With a disability 114 73.1   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 62 8.5
        Scottish 27 3.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 717 100.0   Subsaharan African 2 0.3
Same house in 1995 512 71.4   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 196 27.3   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 136 19.0   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 60 8.4   United States or American 151 20.7
  Same state 53 7.4   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 7 1.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 9 1.3   Other ancestries 23 3.2
             
-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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