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Wilkes County:Traphill 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 3,137 100.0
      enrolled in school 694 100.0   Native 3,132 99.8
Nursery school, preschool 25 3.6       Born in United States 3,128 99.7
Kindergarten 86 12.4           State of residence 2,737 87.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 349 50.3           Different state 391 12.5
High school (grades 9-12) 141 20.3       Born outside United States 4 0.1
College or graduate school 93 13.4   Foreign born 5 0.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 5 0.2
  Population 25 years and over 2,083 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 325 15.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 372 17.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 880 42.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 5 100.0
Some college, no degree 314 15.1   Europe 5 100.0
Associate degree 77 3.7   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 91 4.4   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 24 1.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 66.5 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 5.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,912 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,424 100.0   English only 2,836 97.4
Never married 361 14.9   Language other than English 76 2.6
Now married, except separated 1,690 69.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 38 1.3
Separated 47 1.9   Spanish 47 1.6
Widowed 169 7.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 38 1.3
 Female 133 5.5   Other Indo-European languages 29 1.0
Divorced 157 6.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 86 3.5   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 3,137 100.0
           under 18 years 51 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,607 51.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 21 41.2   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,296 100.0   Dutch 52 1.7
Civilian veterans 207 9.0   English 116 3.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 24 0.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 43 1.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 108 3.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 696 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 69 9.9   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,831 100.0   Irish¹ 144 4.6
With a disability 477 26.1   Italian 6 0.2
 Percent employed 53.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,354 73.9   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 80.1 (X)   Polish 12 0.4
     Population 65 years and over 380 100.0   Portuguese 7 0.2
With a disability 226 59.5   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 24 0.8
        Scottish 29 0.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,912 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,923 66.0   Swedish 20 0.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 975 33.5   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 622 21.4   Ukrainian 36 1.1
 Different county 353 12.1   United States or American 802 25.6
  Same state 221 7.6   Welsh 20 0.6
  Different state 132 4.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 14 0.5   Other ancestries 164 5.2
             
-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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