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Watauga County:Blue Ridge 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 3,747 100.0
      enrolled in school 893 100.0   Native 3,659 97.7
Nursery school, preschool 41 4.6       Born in United States 3,642 97.2
Kindergarten 60 6.7           State of residence 2,205 58.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 306 34.3           Different state 1,437 38.4
High school (grades 9-12) 185 20.7       Born outside United States 17 0.5
College or graduate school 301 33.7   Foreign born 88 2.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 28 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 46 1.2
  Population 25 years and over 2,683 100.0       Not a citizen 42 1.1
Less than 9th grade 51 1.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 147 5.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 504 18.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 88 100.0
Some college, no degree 570 21.2   Europe 38 43.2
Associate degree 190 7.1   Asia 24 27.3
Bachelor's degree 615 22.9   Africa 5 5.7
Graduate or professional degree 606 22.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 21 23.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 92.6 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 45.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,567 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 3,177 100.0   English only 3,428 96.1
Never married 949 29.9   Language other than English 139 3.9
Now married, except separated 1,798 56.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 31 0.9
Separated 29 0.9   Spanish 69 1.9
Widowed 86 2.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 21 0.6
 Female 80 2.5   Other Indo-European languages 62 1.7
Divorced 315 9.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.1
 Female 164 5.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 8 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 3,747 100.0
           under 18 years 40 100.0     Total ancestries reported 3,695 98.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 40 100.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 13 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 3,032 100.0   Dutch 107 2.9
Civilian veterans 399 13.2   English 705 18.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 81 2.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 31 0.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 532 14.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 631 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 27 4.3   Hungarian 7 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,534 100.0   Irish¹ 434 11.6
With a disability 288 11.4   Italian 64 1.7
 Percent employed 68.8 (X)   Lithuanian 9 0.2
No disability 2,246 88.6   Norwegian 97 2.6
 Percent employed 74.2 (X)   Polish 44 1.2
     Population 65 years and over 402 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 131 32.6   Russian 25 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 294 7.8
        Scottish 250 6.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 3,567 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,863 52.2   Swedish 70 1.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,654 46.4   Swiss 16 0.4
 Same county 583 16.3   Ukrainian 5 0.1
 Different county 1,071 30.0   United States or American 492 13.1
  Same state 475 13.3   Welsh 8 0.2
  Different state 596 16.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 50 1.4   Other ancestries 411 11.0
             
-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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