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Yancey County:Brush 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 534 100.0
      enrolled in school 71 100.0   Native 527 98.7
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 527 98.7
Kindergarten 5 7.0           State of residence 435 81.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 53 74.6           Different state 92 17.2
High school (grades 9-12) 8 11.3       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 5 7.0   Foreign born 7 1.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 7 1.3
  Population 25 years and over 352 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 37 10.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 68 19.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 175 49.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 7 100.0
Some college, no degree 48 13.6   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 0 0.0   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 11 3.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 13 3.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 70.2 (X)   Northern America 7 100.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 6.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 459 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 401 100.0   English only 453 98.7
Never married 30 7.5   Language other than English 6 1.3
Now married, except separated 310 77.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 9 2.2   Spanish 6 1.3
Widowed 33 8.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 25 6.2   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 19 4.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 5 1.2   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 534 100.0
           under 18 years 0 N/A     Total ancestries reported 333 62.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 N/A   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 393 100.0   Dutch 16 3.0
Civilian veterans 60 15.3   English 49 9.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 14 2.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 4 0.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 71 100.0   Greek 7 1.3
With a disability 0 0.0   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 281 100.0   Irish¹ 31 5.8
With a disability 87 31.0   Italian 4 0.7
 Percent employed 73.6 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 194 69.0   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 58.8 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 107 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 53 49.5   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 57 10.7
        Scottish 0 0.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 459 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 279 60.8   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 180 39.2   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 109 23.7   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 71 15.5   United States or American 100 18.7
  Same state 35 7.6   Welsh 4 0.7
  Different state 36 7.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 47 8.8
             
-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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