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Wilkes County:Lewis Fork 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 1,439 100.0
      enrolled in school 336 100.0   Native 1,430 99.4
Nursery school, preschool 28 8.3       Born in United States 1,430 99.4
Kindergarten 6 1.8           State of residence 1,251 86.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 190 56.5           Different state 179 12.4
High school (grades 9-12) 63 18.8       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 49 14.6   Foreign born 9 0.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 9 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 1,003 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 118 11.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 189 18.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 328 32.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 9 100.0
Some college, no degree 182 18.1   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 86 8.6   Asia 5 55.6
Bachelor's degree 55 5.5   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 45 4.5   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 69.4 (X)   Northern America 4 44.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,348 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,142 100.0   English only 1,308 97.0
Never married 160 14.0   Language other than English 40 3.0
Now married, except separated 707 61.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 20 1.5
Separated 63 5.5   Spanish 25 1.9
Widowed 96 8.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 20 1.5
 Female 81 7.1   Other Indo-European languages 10 0.7
Divorced 116 10.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 50 4.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 5 0.4
                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 1,439 100.0
           under 18 years 33 100.0     Total ancestries reported 959 66.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 5 15.2   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,084 100.0   Dutch 45 3.1
Civilian veterans 104 9.6   English 103 7.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 8 0.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 176 12.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 302 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 11 3.6   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 822 100.0   Irish¹ 79 5.5
With a disability 241 29.3   Italian 23 1.6
 Percent employed 50.2 (X)   Lithuanian 10 0.7
No disability 581 70.7   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 79.2 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 187 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 83 44.4   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 58 4.0
        Scottish 21 1.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,348 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 879 65.2   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 463 34.3   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 347 25.7   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 116 8.6   United States or American 288 20.0
  Same state 70 5.2   Welsh 7 0.5
  Different state 46 3.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 6 0.4   Other ancestries 141 9.8
             
-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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