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Wilkes County:Stanton 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 570 100.0
      enrolled in school 151 100.0   Native 570 100.0
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 567 99.5
Kindergarten 0 0.0           State of residence 487 85.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 67 44.4           Different state 80 14.0
High school (grades 9-12) 54 35.8       Born outside United States 3 0.5
College or graduate school 30 19.9   Foreign born 0 0.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 418 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 79 18.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 105 25.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 104 24.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 0 N/A
Some college, no degree 91 21.8   Europe 0 N/A
Associate degree 19 4.5   Asia 0 N/A
Bachelor's degree 20 4.8   Africa 0 N/A
Graduate or professional degree 0 0.0   Oceania 0 N/A
        Latin America 0 N/A
Percent high school graduate or higher 56.0 (X)   Northern America 0 N/A
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 4.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 570 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 485 100.0   English only 570 100.0
Never married 86 17.7   Language other than English 0 0.0
Now married, except separated 293 60.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 5 1.0   Spanish 0 0.0
Widowed 55 11.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 35 7.2   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 46 9.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 31 6.4   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 570 100.0
           under 18 years 0 N/A     Total ancestries reported 426 74.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 N/A   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 8 1.4
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 476 100.0   Dutch 16 2.8
Civilian veterans 50 10.5   English 72 12.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 6 1.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 52 9.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 119 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 39 32.8   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 376 100.0   Irish¹ 50 8.8
With a disability 139 37.0   Italian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 70.5 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 237 63.0   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 82.7 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 75 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 47 62.7   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 31 5.4
        Scottish 0 0.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 570 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 292 51.2   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 278 48.8   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 150 26.3   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 128 22.5   United States or American 155 27.2
  Same state 35 6.1   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 93 16.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 36 6.3
             
-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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