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Wilkes County:Reddies River 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 10,209 100.0
      enrolled in school 2,129 100.0   Native 9,897 96.9
Nursery school, preschool 249 11.7       Born in United States 9,863 96.6
Kindergarten 98 4.6           State of residence 8,574 84.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 910 42.7           Different state 1,289 12.6
High school (grades 9-12) 513 24.1       Born outside United States 34 0.3
College or graduate school 359 16.9   Foreign born 312 3.1
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 214 2.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 19 0.2
  Population 25 years and over 7,093 100.0       Not a citizen 293 2.9
Less than 9th grade 826 11.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,547 21.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 2,026 28.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 312 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,438 20.3   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 380 5.4   Asia 49 15.7
Bachelor's degree 669 9.4   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 207 2.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 263 84.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 66.5 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 9,458 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 8,272 100.0   English only 8,990 95.1
Never married 1,278 15.4   Language other than English 468 4.9
Now married, except separated 5,385 65.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 206 2.2
Separated 148 1.8   Spanish 393 4.2
Widowed 581 7.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 165 1.7
 Female 487 5.9   Other Indo-European languages 75 0.8
Divorced 880 10.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 41 0.4
 Female 430 5.2   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 10,209 100.0
           under 18 years 148 100.0     Total ancestries reported 7,355 72.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 83 56.1   Arab 8 0.1
        Czech¹ 11 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 7,900 100.0   Dutch 131 1.3
Civilian veterans 798 10.1   English 994 9.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 79 0.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 964 9.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,869 100.0   Greek 9 0.1
With a disability 192 10.3   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 6,328 100.0   Irish¹ 574 5.6
With a disability 1,526 24.1   Italian 97 1.0
 Percent employed 58.4 (X)   Lithuanian 8 0.1
No disability 4,802 75.9   Norwegian 33 0.3
 Percent employed 82.0 (X)   Polish 88 0.9
     Population 65 years and over 1,261 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 729 57.8   Russian 11 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 473 4.6
        Scottish 226 2.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 9,458 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 5,974 63.2   Swedish 47 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,403 36.0   Swiss 10 0.1
 Same county 2,253 23.8   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 1,150 12.2   United States or American 2,768 27.1
  Same state 565 6.0   Welsh 8 0.1
  Different state 585 6.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 81 0.9   Other ancestries 816 8.0
             
-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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