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Watauga County:Blowing Rock 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 2,840 100.0
      enrolled in school 601 100.0   Native 2,758 97.1
Nursery school, preschool 67 11.1       Born in United States 2,739 96.4
Kindergarten 22 3.7           State of residence 1,595 56.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 222 36.9           Different state 1,144 40.3
High school (grades 9-12) 109 18.1       Born outside United States 19 0.7
College or graduate school 181 30.1   Foreign born 82 2.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 31 1.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 48 1.7
  Population 25 years and over 2,128 100.0       Not a citizen 34 1.2
Less than 9th grade 90 4.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 148 7.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 367 17.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 82 100.0
Some college, no degree 433 20.3   Europe 43 52.4
Associate degree 93 4.4   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 634 29.8   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 363 17.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 16 19.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 88.8 (X)   Northern America 23 28.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 46.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,720 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,442 100.0   English only 2,596 95.4
Never married 516 21.1   Language other than English 124 4.6
Now married, except separated 1,445 59.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.3
Separated 40 1.6   Spanish 53 1.9
Widowed 167 6.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 3 0.1
 Female 164 6.7   Other Indo-European languages 71 2.6
Divorced 274 11.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.2
 Female 159 6.5   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 2,840 100.0
           under 18 years 51 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,883 101.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 28 54.9   Arab 3 0.1
        Czech¹ 5 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 6 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,374 100.0   Dutch 40 1.4
Civilian veterans 335 14.1   English 518 18.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 89 3.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 16 0.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 521 18.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 428 100.0   Greek 9 0.3
With a disability 7 1.6   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,749 100.0   Irish¹ 308 10.8
With a disability 212 12.1   Italian 101 3.6
 Percent employed 61.3 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,537 87.9   Norwegian 5 0.2
 Percent employed 78.1 (X)   Polish 22 0.8
     Population 65 years and over 466 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 171 36.7   Russian 19 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 367 12.9
        Scottish 141 5.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,720 100.0   Subsaharan African 23 0.8
Same house in 1995 1,492 54.9   Swedish 40 1.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,210 44.5   Swiss 5 0.2
 Same county 494 18.2   Ukrainian 18 0.6
 Different county 716 26.3   United States or American 260 9.2
  Same state 385 14.2   Welsh 21 0.7
  Different state 331 12.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 18 0.7   Other ancestries 346 12.2
             
-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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