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Watauga County:Laurel 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 1,826 100.0
      enrolled in school 423 100.0   Native 1,804 98.8
Nursery school, preschool 36 8.5       Born in United States 1,804 98.8
Kindergarten 34 8.0           State of residence 1,130 61.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 179 42.3           Different state 674 36.9
High school (grades 9-12) 107 25.3       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 67 15.8   Foreign born 22 1.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 13 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 4 0.2
  Population 25 years and over 1,279 100.0       Not a citizen 18 1.0
Less than 9th grade 193 15.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 257 20.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 261 20.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 22 100.0
Some college, no degree 243 19.0   Europe 4 18.2
Associate degree 68 5.3   Asia 10 45.5
Bachelor's degree 141 11.0   Africa 2 9.1
Graduate or professional degree 116 9.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 6 27.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 64.8 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 20.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,741 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,514 100.0   English only 1,706 98.0
Never married 303 20.0   Language other than English 35 2.0
Now married, except separated 1,001 66.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 12 0.7
Separated 16 1.1   Spanish 26 1.5
Widowed 47 3.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 12 0.7
 Female 29 1.9   Other Indo-European languages 9 0.5
Divorced 147 9.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 100 6.6   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 1,826 100.0
           under 18 years 41 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,557 85.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 13 31.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 9 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,426 100.0   Dutch 18 1.0
Civilian veterans 205 14.4   English 294 16.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 73 4.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 2 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 282 15.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 378 100.0   Greek 7 0.4
With a disability 30 7.9   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,085 100.0   Irish¹ 102 5.6
With a disability 207 19.1   Italian 51 2.8
 Percent employed 52.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 878 80.9   Norwegian 5 0.3
 Percent employed 75.5 (X)   Polish 2 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 278 100.0   Portuguese 7 0.4
With a disability 105 37.8   Russian 2 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 69 3.8
        Scottish 46 2.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,741 100.0   Subsaharan African 2 0.1
Same house in 1995 1,098 63.1   Swedish 20 1.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 634 36.4   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 261 15.0   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 373 21.4   United States or American 297 16.3
  Same state 101 5.8   Welsh 12 0.7
  Different state 272 15.6   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 9 0.5   Other ancestries 257 14.1
             
-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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