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Watauga County:Watauga 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 2,874 100.0
      enrolled in school 728 100.0   Native 2,790 97.1
Nursery school, preschool 56 7.7       Born in United States 2,764 96.2
Kindergarten 42 5.8           State of residence 1,567 54.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 293 40.2           Different state 1,197 41.6
High school (grades 9-12) 108 14.8       Born outside United States 26 0.9
College or graduate school 229 31.5   Foreign born 84 2.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 34 1.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 44 1.5
  Population 25 years and over 2,016 100.0       Not a citizen 40 1.4
Less than 9th grade 157 7.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 204 10.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 451 22.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 84 100.0
Some college, no degree 368 18.3   Europe 56 66.7
Associate degree 133 6.6   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 441 21.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 262 13.0   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 28 33.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 82.1 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 34.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,701 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,354 100.0   English only 2,605 96.4
Never married 570 24.2   Language other than English 96 3.6
Now married, except separated 1,389 59.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.1
Separated 34 1.4   Spanish 36 1.3
Widowed 141 6.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 122 5.2   Other Indo-European languages 60 2.2
Divorced 220 9.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.1
 Female 112 4.8   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 2,874 100.0
           under 18 years 31 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,696 93.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,272 100.0   Dutch 50 1.7
Civilian veterans 305 13.4   English 477 16.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 106 3.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 14 0.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 331 11.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 505 100.0   Greek 20 0.7
With a disability 52 10.3   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,791 100.0   Irish¹ 293 10.2
With a disability 381 21.3   Italian 147 5.1
 Percent employed 72.4 (X)   Lithuanian 3 0.1
No disability 1,410 78.7   Norwegian 27 0.9
 Percent employed 77.0 (X)   Polish 43 1.5
     Population 65 years and over 405 100.0   Portuguese 2 0.1
With a disability 142 35.1   Russian 6 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 159 5.5
        Scottish 128 4.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,701 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,397 51.7   Swedish 36 1.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,241 45.9   Swiss 28 1.0
 Same county 448 16.6   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 793 29.4   United States or American 508 17.7
  Same state 347 12.8   Welsh 5 0.2
  Different state 446 16.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 63 2.3   Other ancestries 313 10.9
             
-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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