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Wilkes County:Walnut Grove 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 1,188 100.0
      enrolled in school 220 100.0   Native 1,143 96.2
Nursery school, preschool 6 2.7       Born in United States 1,143 96.2
Kindergarten 30 13.6           State of residence 1,051 88.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 161 73.2           Different state 92 7.7
High school (grades 9-12) 15 6.8       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 8 3.6   Foreign born 45 3.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 29 2.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 9 0.8
  Population 25 years and over 793 100.0       Not a citizen 36 3.0
Less than 9th grade 153 19.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 244 30.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 234 29.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 45 100.0
Some college, no degree 114 14.4   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 25 3.2   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 15 1.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 8 1.0   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 45 100.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 49.9 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 2.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,095 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 896 100.0   English only 978 89.3
Never married 148 16.5   Language other than English 117 10.7
Now married, except separated 601 67.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 78 7.1
Separated 19 2.1   Spanish 85 7.8
Widowed 70 7.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 78 7.1
 Female 52 5.8   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 58 6.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 16 1.8   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 1,188 100.0
           under 18 years 38 100.0     Total ancestries reported 741 62.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 874 100.0   Dutch 0 0.0
Civilian veterans 74 8.5   English 133 11.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 28 2.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 42 3.5
     Population 5 to 20 years 247 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 33 13.4   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 639 100.0   Irish¹ 161 13.6
With a disability 184 28.8   Italian 15 1.3
 Percent employed 49.5 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 455 71.2   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 71.6 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 209 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 162 77.5   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 0 0.0
        Scottish 0 0.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,095 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 744 67.9   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 351 32.1   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 275 25.1   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 76 6.9   United States or American 168 14.1
  Same state 33 3.0   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 43 3.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 194 16.3
             
-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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