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Wilkes County:Rock Creek 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 6,006 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,263 100.0   Native 5,950 99.1
Nursery school, preschool 62 4.9       Born in United States 5,950 99.1
Kindergarten 120 9.5           State of residence 5,137 85.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 673 53.3           Different state 813 13.5
High school (grades 9-12) 280 22.2       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 128 10.1   Foreign born 56 0.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 20 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 27 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 4,088 100.0       Not a citizen 29 0.5
Less than 9th grade 540 13.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 844 20.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,518 37.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 56 100.0
Some college, no degree 741 18.1   Europe 17 30.4
Associate degree 128 3.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 226 5.5   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 91 2.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 30 53.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 66.1 (X)   Northern America 9 16.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 7.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 5,603 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,765 100.0   English only 5,531 98.7
Never married 798 16.7   Language other than English 72 1.3
Now married, except separated 3,085 64.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 38 0.7
Separated 102 2.1   Spanish 52 0.9
Widowed 332 7.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 29 0.5
 Female 274 5.8   Other Indo-European languages 20 0.4
Divorced 448 9.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.2
 Female 261 5.5   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 6,006 100.0
           under 18 years 82 100.0     Total ancestries reported 4,171 69.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 61 74.4   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,566 100.0   Dutch 60 1.0
Civilian veterans 502 11.0   English 1,049 17.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 65 1.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 303 5.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,183 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 107 9.0   Hungarian 9 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,690 100.0   Irish¹ 455 7.6
With a disability 966 26.2   Italian 145 2.4
 Percent employed 45.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 2,724 73.8   Norwegian 19 0.3
 Percent employed 77.4 (X)   Polish 23 0.4
     Population 65 years and over 730 100.0   Portuguese 9 0.1
With a disability 336 46.0   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 136 2.3
        Scottish 32 0.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 5,603 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 3,678 65.6   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,874 33.4   Swiss 7 0.1
 Same county 1,312 23.4   Ukrainian 19 0.3
 Different county 562 10.0   United States or American 1,268 21.1
  Same state 282 5.0   Welsh 8 0.1
  Different state 280 5.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 51 0.9   Other ancestries 564 9.4
             
-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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