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Wilkes County:Antioch 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 974 100.0
      enrolled in school 205 100.0   Native 967 99.3
Nursery school, preschool 42 20.5       Born in United States 967 99.3
Kindergarten 10 4.9           State of residence 869 89.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 118 57.6           Different state 98 10.1
High school (grades 9-12) 17 8.3       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 18 8.8   Foreign born 7 0.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 7 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 7 0.7
  Population 25 years and over 627 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 58 9.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 137 21.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 225 35.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 7 100.0
Some college, no degree 106 16.9   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 38 6.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 46 7.3   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 17 2.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 7 100.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 68.9 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 847 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 719 100.0   English only 831 98.1
Never married 103 14.3   Language other than English 16 1.9
Now married, except separated 436 60.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 1.1
Separated 36 5.0   Spanish 16 1.9
Widowed 48 6.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 1.1
 Female 39 5.4   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 96 13.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 62 8.6   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 974 100.0
           under 18 years 10 100.0     Total ancestries reported 606 62.2
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 710 100.0   Dutch 0 0.0
Civilian veterans 45 6.3   English 267 27.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 0 0.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 20 2.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 161 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 10 6.2   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 598 100.0   Irish¹ 15 1.5
With a disability 169 28.3   Italian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 52.7 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 429 71.7   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 75.3 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 88 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 46 52.3   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 0 0.0
        Scottish 10 1.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 847 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 482 56.9   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 365 43.1   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 312 36.8   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 53 6.3   United States or American 139 14.3
  Same state 23 2.7   Welsh 8 0.8
  Different state 30 3.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 147 15.1
             
-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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