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Watauga County:Stony 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 1,992 100.0
      enrolled in school 480 100.0   Native 1,965 98.6
Nursery school, preschool 35 7.3       Born in United States 1,965 98.6
Kindergarten 27 5.6           State of residence 1,563 78.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 227 47.3           Different state 402 20.2
High school (grades 9-12) 106 22.1       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 85 17.7   Foreign born 27 1.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 7 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 1,348 100.0       Not a citizen 27 1.4
Less than 9th grade 166 12.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 242 18.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 430 31.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 27 100.0
Some college, no degree 232 17.2   Europe 7 25.9
Associate degree 69 5.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 162 12.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 47 3.5   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 69.7 (X)   Northern America 20 74.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,886 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,620 100.0   English only 1,805 95.7
Never married 371 22.9   Language other than English 81 4.3
Now married, except separated 1,076 66.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 38 2.0
Separated 29 1.8   Spanish 42 2.2
Widowed 56 3.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 21 1.1
 Female 34 2.1   Other Indo-European languages 39 2.1
Divorced 88 5.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 17 0.9
 Female 43 2.7   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 1,992 100.0
           under 18 years 10 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,662 83.4
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 1,543 100.0   Dutch 17 0.9
Civilian veterans 184 11.9   English 354 17.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 86 4.3
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 171 8.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 400 100.0   Greek 14 0.7
With a disability 24 6.0   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,276 100.0   Irish¹ 236 11.8
With a disability 195 15.3   Italian 21 1.1
 Percent employed 60.5 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,081 84.7   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 80.6 (X)   Polish 54 2.7
     Population 65 years and over 210 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 97 46.2   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 92 4.6
        Scottish 31 1.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,886 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,190 63.1   Swedish 41 2.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 683 36.2   Swiss 2 0.1
 Same county 374 19.8   Ukrainian 8 0.4
 Different county 309 16.4   United States or American 381 19.1
  Same state 198 10.5   Welsh 8 0.4
  Different state 111 5.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 13 0.7   Other ancestries 146 7.3
             
-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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