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Yancey County:Burnsville Township:2000

DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics

Subject Number Percent   Subject Number Percent
     Population 3 years and over            Total poplulation 4,595 100.0
      enrolled in school 824 100.0   Native 4,313 93.9
Nursery school, preschool 42 5.1       Born in United States 4,295 93.5
Kindergarten 50 6.1           State of residence 3,270 71.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 430 52.2           Different state 1,025 22.3
High school (grades 9-12) 184 22.3       Born outside United States 18 0.4
College or graduate school 118 14.3   Foreign born 282 6.1
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 242 5.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 25 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 3,282 100.0       Not a citizen 257 5.6
Less than 9th grade 507 15.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 459 14.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,214 37.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 282 100.0
Some college, no degree 488 14.9   Europe 23 8.2
Associate degree 162 4.9   Asia 18 6.4
Bachelor's degree 284 8.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 168 5.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 239 84.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 70.6 (X)   Northern America 2 0.7
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 13.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 4,337 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 3,867 100.0   English only 4,010 92.5
Never married 760 19.7   Language other than English 327 7.5
Now married, except separated 2,121 54.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 236 5.4
Separated 154 4.0   Spanish 290 6.7
Widowed 416 10.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 225 5.2
 Female 366 9.5   Other Indo-European languages 28 0.6
Divorced 416 10.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.0
 Female 222 5.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 9 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 4,595 100.0
           under 18 years 40 100.0     Total ancestries reported 3,002 65.3
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 23 57.5   Arab 1 0.0
        Czech¹ 2 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 9 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 3,678 100.0   Dutch 21 0.5
Civilian veterans 550 15.0   English 442 9.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 25 0.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 2 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 272 5.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 858 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 75 8.7   Hungarian 7 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 2,451 100.0   Irish¹ 359 7.8
With a disability 683 27.9   Italian 55 1.2
 Percent employed 57.5 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,768 72.1   Norwegian 15 0.3
 Percent employed 72.3 (X)   Polish 24 0.5
     Population 65 years and over 909 100.0   Portuguese 2 0.0
With a disability 480 52.8   Russian 15 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 205 4.5
        Scottish 130 2.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 4,337 100.0   Subsaharan African 8 0.2
Same house in 1995 2,677 61.7   Swedish 41 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,470 33.9   Swiss 7 0.2
 Same county 827 19.1   Ukrainian 2 0.0
 Different county 643 14.8   United States or American 720 15.7
  Same state 296 6.8   Welsh 6 0.1
  Different state 347 8.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 2 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 190 4.4   Other ancestries 630 13.7
             
-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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