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Wilkes County:New Castle 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 1,692 100.0
      enrolled in school 352 100.0   Native 1,613 95.3
Nursery school, preschool 9 2.6       Born in United States 1,601 94.6
Kindergarten 10 2.8           State of residence 1,472 87.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 207 58.8           Different state 129 7.6
High school (grades 9-12) 90 25.6       Born outside United States 12 0.7
College or graduate school 36 10.2   Foreign born 79 4.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 58 3.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 64 3.8
  Population 25 years and over 1,222 100.0       Not a citizen 15 0.9
Less than 9th grade 200 16.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 237 19.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 461 37.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 79 100.0
Some college, no degree 148 12.1   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 57 4.7   Asia 11 13.9
Bachelor's degree 77 6.3   Africa 10 12.7
Graduate or professional degree 42 3.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 58 73.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 64.2 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 9.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,624 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,381 100.0   English only 1,501 92.4
Never married 187 13.5   Language other than English 123 7.6
Now married, except separated 907 65.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 56 3.4
Separated 42 3.0   Spanish 103 6.3
Widowed 128 9.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 45 2.8
 Female 102 7.4   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 117 8.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 56 4.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 20 1.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 11 0.7
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 1,692 100.0
           under 18 years 15 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,345 79.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,337 100.0   Dutch 46 2.7
Civilian veterans 106 7.9   English 319 18.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 10 0.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 85 5.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 320 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 20 6.3   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,032 100.0   Irish¹ 130 7.7
With a disability 251 24.3   Italian 27 1.6
 Percent employed 55.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 781 75.7   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 65.9 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 272 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 122 44.9   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 40 2.4
        Scottish 0 0.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,624 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,170 72.0   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 427 26.3   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 77 4.7   Ukrainian 13 0.8
 Different county 350 21.6   United States or American 395 23.3
  Same state 315 19.4   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 35 2.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 27 1.7   Other ancestries 280 16.5
             
-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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