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Yancey County:Egypt 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 657 100.0
      enrolled in school 93 100.0   Native 657 100.0
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 657 100.0
Kindergarten 0 0.0           State of residence 481 73.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 58 62.4           Different state 176 26.8
High school (grades 9-12) 22 23.7       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 13 14.0   Foreign born 0 0.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 514 100.0       Not a citizen 0 0.0
Less than 9th grade 34 6.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 96 18.7   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 216 42.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 0 N/A
Some college, no degree 33 6.4   Europe 0 N/A
Associate degree 34 6.6   Asia 0 N/A
Bachelor's degree 57 11.1   Africa 0 N/A
Graduate or professional degree 44 8.6   Oceania 0 N/A
        Latin America 0 N/A
Percent high school graduate or higher 74.7 (X)   Northern America 0 N/A
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 19.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 643 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 585 100.0   English only 633 98.4
Never married 106 18.1   Language other than English 10 1.6
Now married, except separated 317 54.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 4 0.7   Spanish 10 1.6
Widowed 81 13.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 66 11.3   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 77 13.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 38 6.5   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 657 100.0
           under 18 years 6 100.0     Total ancestries reported 609 92.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 7 1.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 5 0.8
          Civilian population 18 years and over 554 100.0   Dutch 22 3.3
Civilian veterans 70 12.6   English 137 20.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 5 0.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 7 1.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 27 4.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 111 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 0 0.0   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 403 100.0   Irish¹ 66 10.0
With a disability 34 8.4   Italian 6 0.9
 Percent employed 50.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 369 91.6   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 71.8 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 129 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 64 49.6   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 18 2.7
        Scottish 20 3.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 643 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 491 76.4   Swedish 6 0.9
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 152 23.6   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 18 2.8   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 134 20.8   United States or American 258 39.3
  Same state 60 9.3   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 74 11.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 25 3.8
             
-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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