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Watauga County:Brushy Fork 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 3,257 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,072 100.0   Native 3,183 97.7
Nursery school, preschool 48 4.5       Born in United States 3,153 96.8
Kindergarten 29 2.7           State of residence 2,169 66.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 260 24.3           Different state 984 30.2
High school (grades 9-12) 147 13.7       Born outside United States 30 0.9
College or graduate school 588 54.9   Foreign born 74 2.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 22 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 30 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 2,050 100.0       Not a citizen 44 1.4
Less than 9th grade 147 7.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 137 6.7   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 533 26.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 74 100.0
Some college, no degree 443 21.6   Europe 37 50.0
Associate degree 117 5.7   Asia 22 29.7
Bachelor's degree 378 18.4   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 295 14.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 15 20.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 86.1 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 32.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,111 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,785 100.0   English only 2,945 94.7
Never married 972 34.9   Language other than English 166 5.3
Now married, except separated 1,437 51.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 44 1.4
Separated 29 1.0   Spanish 41 1.3
Widowed 112 4.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 11 0.4
 Female 82 2.9   Other Indo-European languages 96 3.1
Divorced 235 8.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 10 0.3
 Female 118 4.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 13 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 7 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 3,257 100.0
           under 18 years 29 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,781 85.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 7 24.1   Arab 16 0.5
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 9 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,702 100.0   Dutch 26 0.8
Civilian veterans 318 11.8   English 463 14.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 77 2.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 460 14.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 569 100.0   Greek 38 1.2
With a disability 13 2.3   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,202 100.0   Irish¹ 329 10.1
With a disability 331 15.0   Italian 63 1.9
 Percent employed 65.0 (X)   Lithuanian 9 0.3
No disability 1,871 85.0   Norwegian 45 1.4
 Percent employed 78.7 (X)   Polish 25 0.8
     Population 65 years and over 313 100.0   Portuguese 7 0.2
With a disability 160 51.1   Russian 29 0.9
        Scotch-Irish 170 5.2
        Scottish 154 4.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 3,111 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,583 50.9   Swedish 9 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,494 48.0   Swiss 7 0.2
 Same county 621 20.0   Ukrainian 9 0.3
 Different county 873 28.1   United States or American 412 12.6
  Same state 524 16.8   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 349 11.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 22 0.7
Elsewhere in 1995 34 1.1   Other ancestries 402 12.3
             
-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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