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Watauga County:North Fork 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 210 100.0
      enrolled in school 27 100.0   Native 210 100.0
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 210 100.0
Kindergarten 0 0.0           State of residence 155 73.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 16 59.3           Different state 55 26.2
High school (grades 9-12) 11 40.7       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 0 0.0   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 166 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 35 21.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 18 10.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 67 40.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 0 N/A
Some college, no degree 11 6.6   Europe 0 N/A
Associate degree 5 3.0   Asia 0 N/A
Bachelor's degree 24 14.5   Africa 0 N/A
Graduate or professional degree 6 3.6   Oceania 0 N/A
        Latin America 0 N/A
Percent high school graduate or higher 68.1 (X)   Northern America 0 N/A
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 18.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 193 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 177 100.0   English only 193 100.0
Never married 21 11.9   Language other than English 0 0.0
Now married, except separated 116 65.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 0 0.0   Spanish 0 0.0
Widowed 28 15.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 28 15.8   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 12 6.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 7 4.0   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 210 100.0
           under 18 years 10 100.0     Total ancestries reported 167 79.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 10 100.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 166 100.0   Dutch 0 0.0
Civilian veterans 17 10.2   English 21 10.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 0 0.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 25 11.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 27 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 0 0.0   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 132 100.0   Irish¹ 19 9.0
With a disability 34 25.8   Italian 13 6.2
 Percent employed 38.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 98 74.2   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 70.4 (X)   Polish 7 3.3
     Population 65 years and over 34 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 0 0.0   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 5 2.4
        Scottish 6 2.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 193 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 127 65.8   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 66 34.2   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 18 9.3   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 48 24.9   United States or American 35 16.7
  Same state 24 12.4   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 24 12.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 36 17.1
             
-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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