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Watauga County:Meat Camp 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 2,554 100.0
      enrolled in school 661 100.0   Native 2,519 98.6
Nursery school, preschool 33 5.0       Born in United States 2,501 97.9
Kindergarten 16 2.4           State of residence 1,874 73.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 349 52.8           Different state 627 24.5
High school (grades 9-12) 145 21.9       Born outside United States 18 0.7
College or graduate school 118 17.9   Foreign born 35 1.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 30 1.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 1,752 100.0       Not a citizen 35 1.4
Less than 9th grade 264 15.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 204 11.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 514 29.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 35 100.0
Some college, no degree 253 14.4   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 88 5.0   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 252 14.4   Africa 5 14.3
Graduate or professional degree 177 10.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 23 65.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 73.3 (X)   Northern America 7 20.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 24.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,458 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,077 100.0   English only 2,343 95.3
Never married 422 20.3   Language other than English 115 4.7
Now married, except separated 1,289 62.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 35 1.4
Separated 39 1.9   Spanish 81 3.3
Widowed 133 6.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 35 1.4
 Female 107 5.2   Other Indo-European languages 34 1.4
Divorced 194 9.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 94 4.5   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 2,554 100.0
           under 18 years 50 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,002 78.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 15 30.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 6 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,961 100.0   Dutch 45 1.8
Civilian veterans 239 12.2   English 269 10.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 6 0.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 7 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 386 15.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 554 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 75 13.5   Hungarian 6 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,591 100.0   Irish¹ 200 7.8
With a disability 265 16.7   Italian 31 1.2
 Percent employed 41.5 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,326 83.3   Norwegian 10 0.4
 Percent employed 82.9 (X)   Polish 4 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 313 100.0   Portuguese 6 0.2
With a disability 102 32.6   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 71 2.8
        Scottish 111 4.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,458 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,534 62.4   Swedish 22 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 904 36.8   Swiss 18 0.7
 Same county 399 16.2   Ukrainian 14 0.5
 Different county 505 20.5   United States or American 486 19.0
  Same state 190 7.7   Welsh 64 2.5
  Different state 315 12.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 20 0.8   Other ancestries 240 9.4
             
-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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