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Mitchell County:Grassy 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 8,244 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,722 100.0   Native 8,062 97.8
Nursery school, preschool 90 5.2       Born in United States 8,023 97.3
Kindergarten 100 5.8           State of residence 6,598 80.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 914 53.1           Different state 1,425 17.3
High school (grades 9-12) 405 23.5       Born outside United States 39 0.5
College or graduate school 213 12.4   Foreign born 182 2.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 100 1.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 52 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 5,867 100.0       Not a citizen 130 1.6
Less than 9th grade 661 11.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 936 16.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,874 31.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 182 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,123 19.1   Europe 25 13.7
Associate degree 420 7.2   Asia 22 12.1
Bachelor's degree 520 8.9   Africa 6 3.3
Graduate or professional degree 333 5.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 105 57.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 72.8 (X)   Northern America 24 13.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 14.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 7,871 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 6,783 100.0   English only 7,545 95.9
Never married 1,060 15.6   Language other than English 326 4.1
Now married, except separated 4,383 64.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 140 1.8
Separated 151 2.2   Spanish 192 2.4
Widowed 609 9.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 116 1.5
 Female 517 7.6   Other Indo-European languages 107 1.4
Divorced 580 8.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 24 0.3
 Female 293 4.3   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 8,244 100.0
           under 18 years 144 100.0     Total ancestries reported 5,984 72.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 70 48.6   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 5 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 20 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 6,446 100.0   Dutch 54 0.7
Civilian veterans 945 14.7   English 826 10.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 147 1.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 2 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 640 7.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,664 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 169 10.2   Hungarian 16 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,636 100.0   Irish¹ 651 7.9
With a disability 1,091 23.5   Italian 50 0.6
 Percent employed 52.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 3,545 76.5   Norwegian 1 0.0
 Percent employed 78.7 (X)   Polish 41 0.5
     Population 65 years and over 1,439 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 619 43.0   Russian 6 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 428 5.2
        Scottish 289 3.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 7,871 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 5,101 64.8   Swedish 28 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,707 34.4   Swiss 26 0.3
 Same county 1,500 19.1   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 1,207 15.3   United States or American 1,882 22.8
  Same state 914 11.6   Welsh 68 0.8
  Different state 293 3.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 63 0.8   Other ancestries 804 9.8
             
-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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