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Wilkes County:Moravian Falls 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 2,744 100.0
      enrolled in school 660 100.0   Native 2,618 95.4
Nursery school, preschool 58 8.8       Born in United States 2,618 95.4
Kindergarten 62 9.4           State of residence 2,071 75.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 336 50.9           Different state 547 19.9
High school (grades 9-12) 83 12.6       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 121 18.3   Foreign born 126 4.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 53 1.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 52 1.9
  Population 25 years and over 1,851 100.0       Not a citizen 74 2.7
Less than 9th grade 203 11.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 409 22.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 485 26.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 126 100.0
Some college, no degree 427 23.1   Europe 21 16.7
Associate degree 79 4.3   Asia 23 18.3
Bachelor's degree 124 6.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 124 6.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 82 65.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 66.9 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 13.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,585 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,187 100.0   English only 2,396 92.7
Never married 422 19.3   Language other than English 189 7.3
Now married, except separated 1,400 64.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 114 4.4
Separated 16 0.7   Spanish 150 5.8
Widowed 175 8.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 84 3.2
 Female 152 7.0   Other Indo-European languages 9 0.3
Divorced 174 8.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 89 4.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 30 1.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 30 1.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 2,744 100.0
           under 18 years 53 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,023 73.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 26 49.1   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 7 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,119 100.0   Dutch 15 0.5
Civilian veterans 248 11.7   English 402 14.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 17 0.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 181 6.6
     Population 5 to 20 years 593 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 25 4.2   Hungarian 30 1.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,613 100.0   Irish¹ 93 3.4
With a disability 404 25.0   Italian 16 0.6
 Percent employed 69.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,209 75.0   Norwegian 32 1.2
 Percent employed 82.7 (X)   Polish 48 1.7
     Population 65 years and over 379 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 146 38.5   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 42 1.5
        Scottish 22 0.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,585 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,650 63.8   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 909 35.2   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 566 21.9   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 343 13.3   United States or American 704 25.7
  Same state 117 4.5   Welsh 9 0.3
  Different state 226 8.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 26 1.0   Other ancestries 405 14.8
             
-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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