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Wilkes County:North Wilkesboro 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 6,909 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,581 100.0   Native 6,520 94.4
Nursery school, preschool 129 8.2       Born in United States 6,499 94.1
Kindergarten 68 4.3           State of residence 5,278 76.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 792 50.1           Different state 1,221 17.7
High school (grades 9-12) 358 22.6       Born outside United States 21 0.3
College or graduate school 234 14.8   Foreign born 389 5.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 290 4.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 43 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 4,688 100.0       Not a citizen 346 5.0
Less than 9th grade 799 17.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 908 19.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,427 30.4     Total (excluding born at sea) 389 100.0
Some college, no degree 767 16.4   Europe 24 6.2
Associate degree 191 4.1   Asia 13 3.3
Bachelor's degree 396 8.4   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 200 4.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 352 90.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 63.6 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 6,514 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 5,575 100.0   English only 5,945 91.3
Never married 1,269 22.8   Language other than English 569 8.7
Now married, except separated 2,875 51.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 373 5.7
Separated 150 2.7   Spanish 469 7.2
Widowed 710 12.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 300 4.6
 Female 566 10.2   Other Indo-European languages 27 0.4
Divorced 571 10.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 6 0.1
 Female 338 6.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 26 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 20 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 6,909 100.0
           under 18 years 94 100.0     Total ancestries reported 5,219 75.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 43 45.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 7 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 18 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 5,301 100.0   Dutch 95 1.4
Civilian veterans 738 13.9   English 657 9.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 45 0.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 8 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 499 7.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,467 100.0   Greek 13 0.2
With a disability 121 8.2   Hungarian 5 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,780 100.0   Irish¹ 524 7.6
With a disability 966 25.6   Italian 142 2.1
 Percent employed 48.7 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 2,814 74.4   Norwegian 21 0.3
 Percent employed 78.5 (X)   Polish 59 0.9
     Population 65 years and over 1,124 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 522 46.4   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 190 2.8
        Scottish 161 2.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 6,514 100.0   Subsaharan African 43 0.6
Same house in 1995 3,861 59.3   Swedish 46 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 2,415 37.1   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 1,546 23.7   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 869 13.3   United States or American 1,506 21.8
  Same state 491 7.5   Welsh 14 0.2
  Different state 378 5.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 238 3.7   Other ancestries 1,166 16.9
             
-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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