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Yancey County:Crabtree 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 3,245 100.0
      enrolled in school 650 100.0   Native 3,217 99.1
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 3,204 98.7
Kindergarten 46 7.1           State of residence 2,736 84.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 359 55.2           Different state 468 14.4
High school (grades 9-12) 143 22.0       Born outside United States 13 0.4
College or graduate school 102 15.7   Foreign born 28 0.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 6 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 15 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 2,327 100.0       Not a citizen 13 0.4
Less than 9th grade 288 12.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 432 18.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 827 35.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 28 100.0
Some college, no degree 425 18.3   Europe 28 100.0
Associate degree 150 6.4   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 156 6.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 49 2.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 69.1 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 8.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,093 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,661 100.0   English only 3,060 98.9
Never married 423 15.9   Language other than English 33 1.1
Now married, except separated 1,804 67.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 19 0.6
Separated 38 1.4   Spanish 14 0.5
Widowed 200 7.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 196 7.4   Other Indo-European languages 14 0.5
Divorced 196 7.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 14 0.5
 Female 95 3.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 5 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 3,245 100.0
           under 18 years 89 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,145 66.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 46 51.7   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,539 100.0   Dutch 16 0.5
Civilian veterans 324 12.8   English 278 8.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 24 0.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 188 5.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 669 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 57 8.5   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,908 100.0   Irish¹ 206 6.3
With a disability 484 25.4   Italian 25 0.8
 Percent employed 52.5 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,424 74.6   Norwegian 3 0.1
 Percent employed 77.6 (X)   Polish 9 0.3
     Population 65 years and over 516 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 282 54.7   Russian 14 0.4
        Scotch-Irish 204 6.3
        Scottish 107 3.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 3,093 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 2,096 67.8   Swedish 28 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 979 31.7   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 685 22.1   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 294 9.5   United States or American 731 22.5
  Same state 198 6.4   Welsh 13 0.4
  Different state 96 3.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 18 0.6   Other ancestries 299 9.2
             
-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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