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Watauga County:New River 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 9,127 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,480 100.0   Native 8,953 98.1
Nursery school, preschool 101 2.9       Born in United States 8,826 96.7
Kindergarten 77 2.2           State of residence 5,503 60.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 779 22.4           Different state 3,323 36.4
High school (grades 9-12) 428 12.3       Born outside United States 127 1.4
College or graduate school 2,095 60.2   Foreign born 174 1.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 126 1.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 37 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 5,226 100.0       Not a citizen 137 1.5
Less than 9th grade 385 7.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 452 8.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,203 23.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 174 100.0
Some college, no degree 842 16.1   Europe 26 14.9
Associate degree 437 8.4   Asia 59 33.9
Bachelor's degree 1,003 19.2   Africa 17 9.8
Graduate or professional degree 904 17.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 66 37.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 84.0 (X)   Northern America 6 3.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 36.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 8,756 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 7,824 100.0   English only 8,298 94.8
Never married 3,392 43.4   Language other than English 458 5.2
Now married, except separated 3,218 41.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 150 1.7
Separated 100 1.3   Spanish 246 2.8
Widowed 460 5.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 83 0.9
 Female 391 5.0   Other Indo-European languages 158 1.8
Divorced 654 8.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 32 0.4
 Female 451 5.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 35 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 35 0.4
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 9,127 100.0
           under 18 years 76 100.0     Total ancestries reported 8,273 90.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 27 35.5   Arab 45 0.5
        Czech¹ 23 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 15 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 7,502 100.0   Dutch 129 1.4
Civilian veterans 824 11.0   English 1,411 15.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 234 2.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 19 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,221 13.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,967 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 135 6.9   Hungarian 5 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 5,613 100.0   Irish¹ 748 8.2
With a disability 737 13.1   Italian 318 3.5
 Percent employed 54.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 4,876 86.9   Norwegian 38 0.4
 Percent employed 79.5 (X)   Polish 193 2.1
     Population 65 years and over 1,068 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 536 50.2   Russian 13 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 554 6.1
        Scottish 456 5.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 8,756 100.0   Subsaharan African 10 0.1
Same house in 1995 3,599 41.1   Swedish 128 1.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 4,978 56.9   Swiss 34 0.4
 Same county 1,842 21.0   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 3,136 35.8   United States or American 1,210 13.3
  Same state 2,054 23.5   Welsh 116 1.3
  Different state 1,082 12.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 179 2.0   Other ancestries 1,353 14.8
             
-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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