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Watauga County:Cove 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 2,864 100.0
      enrolled in school 696 100.0   Native 2,835 99.0
Nursery school, preschool 52 7.5       Born in United States 2,821 98.5
Kindergarten 41 5.9           State of residence 2,040 71.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 313 45.0           Different state 781 27.3
High school (grades 9-12) 136 19.5       Born outside United States 14 0.5
College or graduate school 154 22.1   Foreign born 29 1.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 12 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 1,936 100.0       Not a citizen 29 1.0
Less than 9th grade 221 11.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 329 17.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 641 33.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 29 100.0
Some college, no degree 387 20.0   Europe 11 37.9
Associate degree 71 3.7   Asia 6 20.7
Bachelor's degree 196 10.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 91 4.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 12 41.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 71.6 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 14.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,681 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,286 100.0   English only 2,622 97.8
Never married 456 19.9   Language other than English 59 2.2
Now married, except separated 1,439 62.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 29 1.1
Separated 45 2.0   Spanish 48 1.8
Widowed 186 8.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 23 0.9
 Female 154 6.7   Other Indo-European languages 5 0.2
Divorced 160 7.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 86 3.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 6 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 6 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 2,864 100.0
           under 18 years 7 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,236 78.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 16 0.6
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,189 100.0   Dutch 70 2.4
Civilian veterans 275 12.6   English 311 10.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 5 0.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 58 2.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 427 14.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 562 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 13 2.3   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,706 100.0   Irish¹ 258 9.0
With a disability 311 18.2   Italian 21 0.7
 Percent employed 53.7 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,395 81.8   Norwegian 51 1.8
 Percent employed 76.3 (X)   Polish 15 0.5
     Population 65 years and over 413 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 182 44.1   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 57 2.0
        Scottish 94 3.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,681 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,733 64.6   Swedish 31 1.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 923 34.4   Swiss 19 0.7
 Same county 588 21.9   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 335 12.5   United States or American 493 17.2
  Same state 128 4.8   Welsh 13 0.5
  Different state 207 7.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 25 0.9   Other ancestries 297 10.4
             
-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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