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Yancey County:Cane River 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 1,653 100.0
      enrolled in school 341 100.0   Native 1,640 99.2
Nursery school, preschool 14 4.1       Born in United States 1,634 98.9
Kindergarten 9 2.6           State of residence 1,433 86.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 204 59.8           Different state 201 12.2
High school (grades 9-12) 85 24.9       Born outside United States 6 0.4
College or graduate school 29 8.5   Foreign born 13 0.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 13 0.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 1,187 100.0       Not a citizen 13 0.8
Less than 9th grade 105 8.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 190 16.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 437 36.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 13 100.0
Some college, no degree 230 19.4   Europe 13 100.0
Associate degree 78 6.6   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 96 8.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 51 4.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 75.1 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,567 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,323 100.0   English only 1,530 97.6
Never married 183 13.8   Language other than English 37 2.4
Now married, except separated 881 66.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 31 2.3   Spanish 26 1.7
Widowed 107 8.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 81 6.1   Other Indo-European languages 11 0.7
Divorced 121 9.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 76 5.7   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 1,653 100.0
           under 18 years 16 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,322 80.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 16 100.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,255 100.0   Dutch 21 1.3
Civilian veterans 165 13.1   English 93 5.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 9 0.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 117 7.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 358 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 50 14.0   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 857 100.0   Irish¹ 219 13.2
With a disability 106 12.4   Italian 27 1.6
 Percent employed 41.5 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 751 87.6   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 67.2 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 352 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 178 50.6   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 104 6.3
        Scottish 31 1.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,567 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,105 70.5   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 436 27.8   Swiss 6 0.4
 Same county 239 15.3   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 197 12.6   United States or American 521 31.5
  Same state 166 10.6   Welsh 4 0.2
  Different state 31 2.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 5 0.3
Elsewhere in 1995 26 1.7   Other ancestries 165 10.0
             
-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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