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Wilkes County:Boomer 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 2,029 100.0
      enrolled in school 491 100.0   Native 1,991 98.1
Nursery school, preschool 16 3.3       Born in United States 1,983 97.7
Kindergarten 8 1.6           State of residence 1,615 79.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 260 53.0           Different state 368 18.1
High school (grades 9-12) 167 34.0       Born outside United States 8 0.4
College or graduate school 40 8.1   Foreign born 38 1.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 31 1.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 7 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 1,296 100.0       Not a citizen 31 1.5
Less than 9th grade 211 16.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 254 19.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 399 30.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 38 100.0
Some college, no degree 228 17.6   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 53 4.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 98 7.6   Africa 31 81.6
Graduate or professional degree 53 4.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 7 18.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 64.1 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,899 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,622 100.0   English only 1,785 94.0
Never married 356 21.9   Language other than English 114 6.0
Now married, except separated 1,029 63.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 14 0.7
Separated 31 1.9   Spanish 58 3.1
Widowed 97 6.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 14 0.7
 Female 76 4.7   Other Indo-European languages 56 2.9
Divorced 109 6.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 37 2.3   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 2,029 100.0
           under 18 years 39 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,573 77.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 3 7.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,483 100.0   Dutch 36 1.8
Civilian veterans 214 14.4   English 210 10.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 11 0.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 117 5.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 489 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 52 10.6   Hungarian 7 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,188 100.0   Irish¹ 151 7.4
With a disability 205 17.3   Italian 26 1.3
 Percent employed 50.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 983 82.7   Norwegian 13 0.6
 Percent employed 84.8 (X)   Polish 29 1.4
     Population 65 years and over 222 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 141 63.5   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 20 1.0
        Scottish 30 1.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,899 100.0   Subsaharan African 31 1.5
Same house in 1995 1,213 63.9   Swedish 17 0.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 662 34.9   Swiss 9 0.4
 Same county 360 19.0   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 302 15.9   United States or American 497 24.5
  Same state 122 6.4   Welsh 8 0.4
  Different state 180 9.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 24 1.3   Other ancestries 361 17.8
             
-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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