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Wilkes County:Lovelace 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 619 100.0
      enrolled in school 124 100.0   Native 619 100.0
Nursery school, preschool 11 8.9       Born in United States 619 100.0
Kindergarten 0 0.0           State of residence 579 93.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 44 35.5           Different state 40 6.5
High school (grades 9-12) 56 45.2       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 13 10.5   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 462 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 74 16.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 57 12.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 191 41.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 0 N/A
Some college, no degree 115 24.9   Europe 0 N/A
Associate degree 25 5.4   Asia 0 N/A
Bachelor's degree 0 0.0   Africa 0 N/A
Graduate or professional degree 0 0.0   Oceania 0 N/A
        Latin America 0 N/A
Percent high school graduate or higher 71.6 (X)   Northern America 0 N/A
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 0.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 584 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 532 100.0   English only 584 100.0
Never married 91 17.1   Language other than English 0 0.0
Now married, except separated 359 67.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 0 0.0   Spanish 0 0.0
Widowed 32 6.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 25 4.7   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 50 9.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 21 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 619 100.0
           under 18 years 14 100.0     Total ancestries reported 410 66.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 14 100.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 495 100.0   Dutch 54 8.7
Civilian veterans 54 10.9   English 84 13.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 0 0.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 26 4.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 113 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 0 0.0   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 381 100.0   Irish¹ 75 12.1
With a disability 105 27.6   Italian 9 1.5
 Percent employed 77.1 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 276 72.4   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 80.1 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 90 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 62 68.9   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 0 0.0
        Scottish 0 0.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 584 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 462 79.1   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 122 20.9   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 113 19.3   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 9 1.5   United States or American 131 21.2
  Same state 0 0.0   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 9 1.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 31 5.0
             
-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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