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Wilkes County:Mulberry 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 6,352 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,282 100.0   Native 6,316 99.4
Nursery school, preschool 33 2.6       Born in United States 6,306 99.3
Kindergarten 59 4.6           State of residence 5,344 84.1
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 670 52.3           Different state 962 15.1
High school (grades 9-12) 331 25.8       Born outside United States 10 0.2
College or graduate school 189 14.7   Foreign born 36 0.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 19 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 22 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 4,431 100.0       Not a citizen 14 0.2
Less than 9th grade 639 14.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,120 25.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,234 27.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 36 100.0
Some college, no degree 809 18.3   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 225 5.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 334 7.5   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 70 1.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 36 100.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 60.3 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 9.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 6,000 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 5,220 100.0   English only 5,843 97.4
Never married 837 16.0   Language other than English 157 2.6
Now married, except separated 3,409 65.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 91 1.5
Separated 152 2.9   Spanish 121 2.0
Widowed 395 7.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 81 1.4
 Female 334 6.4   Other Indo-European languages 36 0.6
Divorced 427 8.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 10 0.2
 Female 233 4.5   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 6,352 100.0
           under 18 years 165 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,316 67.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 44 26.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 7 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,942 100.0   Dutch 63 1.0
Civilian veterans 543 11.0   English 784 12.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 33 0.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 17 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 361 5.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,285 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 118 9.2   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,839 100.0   Irish¹ 577 9.1
With a disability 875 22.8   Italian 33 0.5
 Percent employed 46.9 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 2,964 77.2   Norwegian 25 0.4
 Percent employed 79.7 (X)   Polish 19 0.3
     Population 65 years and over 872 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 469 53.8   Russian 36 0.6
        Scotch-Irish 178 2.8
        Scottish 42 0.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 6,000 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 4,208 70.1   Swedish 17 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,774 29.6   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 1,437 23.9   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 337 5.6   United States or American 1,692 26.6
  Same state 207 3.5   Welsh 36 0.6
  Different state 130 2.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 18 0.3   Other ancestries 396 6.2
             
-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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