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Wilkes County:Edwards 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 6,951 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,412 100.0   Native 6,881 99.0
Nursery school, preschool 112 7.9       Born in United States 6,865 98.8
Kindergarten 86 6.1           State of residence 6,201 89.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 666 47.2           Different state 664 9.6
High school (grades 9-12) 323 22.9       Born outside United States 16 0.2
College or graduate school 225 15.9   Foreign born 70 1.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 46 0.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 10 0.1
  Population 25 years and over 4,888 100.0       Not a citizen 60 0.9
Less than 9th grade 678 13.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,003 20.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,699 34.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 70 100.0
Some college, no degree 876 17.9   Europe 11 15.7
Associate degree 312 6.4   Asia 14 20.0
Bachelor's degree 253 5.2   Africa 19 27.1
Graduate or professional degree 67 1.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 26 37.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 65.6 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 6.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 6,560 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 5,718 100.0   English only 6,390 97.4
Never married 1,093 19.1   Language other than English 170 2.6
Now married, except separated 3,742 65.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 86 1.3
Separated 135 2.4   Spanish 124 1.9
Widowed 405 7.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 60 0.9
 Female 331 5.8   Other Indo-European languages 13 0.2
Divorced 343 6.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 149 2.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 7 0.1
                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 6,951 100.0
           under 18 years 82 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,734 68.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 35 42.7   Arab 26 0.4
        Czech¹ 9 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 8 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 5,449 100.0   Dutch 228 3.3
Civilian veterans 587 10.8   English 777 11.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 148 2.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 622 8.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,332 100.0   Greek 28 0.4
With a disability 136 10.2   Hungarian 6 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 4,206 100.0   Irish¹ 446 6.4
With a disability 740 17.6   Italian 42 0.6
 Percent employed 55.3 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 3,466 82.4   Norwegian 7 0.1
 Percent employed 78.4 (X)   Polish 14 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 1,022 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 524 51.3   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 130 1.9
        Scottish 92 1.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 6,560 100.0   Subsaharan African 4 0.1
Same house in 1995 4,649 70.9   Swedish 27 0.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,879 28.6   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 1,120 17.1   Ukrainian 12 0.2
 Different county 759 11.6   United States or American 1,383 19.9
  Same state 547 8.3   Welsh 9 0.1
  Different state 212 3.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 32 0.5   Other ancestries 716 10.3
             
-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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