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Watauga County:Boone 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 8,612 100.0
      enrolled in school 7,129 100.0   Native 8,430 97.9
Nursery school, preschool 10 0.1       Born in United States 8,287 96.2
Kindergarten 9 0.1           State of residence 5,071 58.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 72 1.0           Different state 3,216 37.3
High school (grades 9-12) 54 0.8       Born outside United States 143 1.7
College or graduate school 6,984 98.0   Foreign born 182 2.1
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 138 1.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 9 0.1
  Population 25 years and over 1,371 100.0       Not a citizen 173 2.0
Less than 9th grade 53 3.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 59 4.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 151 11.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 182 100.0
Some college, no degree 230 16.8   Europe 62 34.1
Associate degree 66 4.8   Asia 63 34.6
Bachelor's degree 357 26.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 455 33.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 35 19.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 91.8 (X)   Northern America 22 12.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 59.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 8,535 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 8,454 100.0   English only 7,964 93.3
Never married 6,213 73.5   Language other than English 571 6.7
Now married, except separated 1,925 22.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 72 0.8
Separated 61 0.7   Spanish 244 2.9
Widowed 99 1.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 32 0.4
 Female 77 0.9   Other Indo-European languages 217 2.5
Divorced 156 1.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 27 0.3
 Female 70 0.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 60 0.7
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 13 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 8,612 100.0
           under 18 years 3 100.0     Total ancestries reported 7,888 91.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 25 0.3
        Czech¹ 27 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 27 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 8,396 100.0   Dutch 165 1.9
Civilian veterans 278 3.3   English 1,088 12.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 178 2.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 23 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,431 16.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 4,979 100.0   Greek 98 1.1
With a disability 480 9.6   Hungarian 9 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,222 100.0   Irish¹ 858 10.0
With a disability 292 9.1   Italian 491 5.7
 Percent employed 67.1 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 2,930 90.9   Norwegian 66 0.8
 Percent employed 65.5 (X)   Polish 100 1.2
     Population 65 years and over 307 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 153 49.8   Russian 22 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 764 8.9
        Scottish 505 5.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 8,535 100.0   Subsaharan African 9 0.1
Same house in 1995 1,613 18.9   Swedish 127 1.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 6,677 78.2   Swiss 18 0.2
 Same county 663 7.8   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 6,014 70.5   United States or American 502 5.8
  Same state 4,464 52.3   Welsh 31 0.4
  Different state 1,550 18.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 35 0.4
Elsewhere in 1995 245 2.9   Other ancestries 1,289 15.0
             
-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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