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Watauga County:Elk 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 309 100.0
      enrolled in school 58 100.0   Native 309 100.0
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 309 100.0
Kindergarten 0 0.0           State of residence 128 41.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 38 65.5           Different state 181 58.6
High school (grades 9-12) 14 24.1       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 6 10.3   Foreign born 0 0.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 231 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 7 3.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 22 9.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 39 16.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 0 N/A
Some college, no degree 64 27.7   Europe 0 N/A
Associate degree 10 4.3   Asia 0 N/A
Bachelor's degree 65 28.1   Africa 0 N/A
Graduate or professional degree 24 10.4   Oceania 0 N/A
        Latin America 0 N/A
Percent high school graduate or higher 87.4 (X)   Northern America 0 N/A
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 38.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 300 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 255 100.0   English only 294 98.0
Never married 37 14.5   Language other than English 6 2.0
Now married, except separated 132 51.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 10 3.9   Spanish 0 0.0
Widowed 17 6.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 17 6.7   Other Indo-European languages 6 2.0
Divorced 59 23.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 34 13.3   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 309 100.0
           under 18 years 0 N/A     Total ancestries reported 317 102.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 N/A   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 255 100.0   Dutch 44 14.2
Civilian veterans 34 13.3   English 36 11.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 37 12.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 86 27.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 45 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 0 0.0   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 209 100.0   Irish¹ 42 13.6
With a disability 34 16.3   Italian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 38.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 175 83.7   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 68.0 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 46 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 10 21.7   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 9 2.9
        Scottish 32 10.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 300 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 249 83.0   Swedish 8 2.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 51 17.0   Swiss 6 1.9
 Same county 14 4.7   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 37 12.3   United States or American 0 0.0
  Same state 10 3.3   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 27 9.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 17 5.5
             
-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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