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Wilkes County:Brushy Mountain 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 612 100.0
      enrolled in school 131 100.0   Native 612 100.0
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 604 98.7
Kindergarten 9 6.9           State of residence 383 62.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 78 59.5           Different state 221 36.1
High school (grades 9-12) 25 19.1       Born outside United States 8 1.3
College or graduate school 19 14.5   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 421 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 43 10.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 14 3.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 141 33.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 0 N/A
Some college, no degree 114 27.1   Europe 0 N/A
Associate degree 7 1.7   Asia 0 N/A
Bachelor's degree 37 8.8   Africa 0 N/A
Graduate or professional degree 65 15.4   Oceania 0 N/A
        Latin America 0 N/A
Percent high school graduate or higher 86.5 (X)   Northern America 0 N/A
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 24.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 598 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 511 100.0   English only 598 100.0
Never married 114 22.3   Language other than English 0 0.0
Now married, except separated 370 72.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 7 1.4   Spanish 0 0.0
Widowed 0 0.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 0 0.0   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 20 3.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 20 3.9   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 612 100.0
           under 18 years 0 N/A     Total ancestries reported 630 102.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 N/A   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 499 100.0   Dutch 0 0.0
Civilian veterans 91 18.2   English 51 8.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 6 1.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 88 14.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 146 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 25 17.1   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 383 100.0   Irish¹ 97 15.8
With a disability 57 14.9   Italian 9 1.5
 Percent employed 70.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 326 85.1   Norwegian 6 1.0
 Percent employed 85.0 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 69 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 31 44.9   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 13 2.1
        Scottish 14 2.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 598 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 397 66.4   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 201 33.6   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 104 17.4   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 97 16.2   United States or American 178 29.1
  Same state 97 16.2   Welsh 8 1.3
  Different state 0 0.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 160 26.1
             
-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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