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Yancey County:Green Mountain 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 653 100.0
      enrolled in school 148 100.0   Native 648 99.2
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 636 97.4
Kindergarten 0 0.0           State of residence 533 81.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 83 56.1           Different state 103 15.8
High school (grades 9-12) 47 31.8       Born outside United States 12 1.8
College or graduate school 18 12.2   Foreign born 5 0.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 5 0.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 467 100.0       Not a citizen 5 0.8
Less than 9th grade 96 20.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 46 9.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 178 38.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 5 100.0
Some college, no degree 72 15.4   Europe 5 100.0
Associate degree 8 1.7   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 61 13.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 6 1.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 69.6 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 14.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 625 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 529 100.0   English only 609 97.4
Never married 59 11.2   Language other than English 16 2.6
Now married, except separated 411 77.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
Separated 21 4.0   Spanish 0 0.0
Widowed 22 4.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 22 4.2   Other Indo-European languages 16 2.6
Divorced 16 3.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 5 0.9   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 653 100.0
           under 18 years 13 100.0     Total ancestries reported 354 54.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 13 100.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 503 100.0   Dutch 7 1.1
Civilian veterans 67 13.3   English 63 9.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 0 0.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 11 1.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 133 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 8 6.0   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 408 100.0   Irish¹ 46 7.0
With a disability 109 26.7   Italian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 29.4 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 299 73.3   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 75.6 (X)   Polish 5 0.8
     Population 65 years and over 84 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 48 57.1   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 84 12.9
        Scottish 15 2.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 625 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 497 79.5   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 128 20.5   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 54 8.6   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 74 11.8   United States or American 94 14.4
  Same state 21 3.4   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 53 8.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 0 0.0   Other ancestries 29 4.4
             
-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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