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Yancey County:Jacks Creek 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 1,585 100.0
      enrolled in school 358 100.0   Native 1,565 98.7
Nursery school, preschool 11 3.1       Born in United States 1,563 98.6
Kindergarten 20 5.6           State of residence 1,151 72.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 187 52.2           Different state 412 26.0
High school (grades 9-12) 87 24.3       Born outside United States 2 0.1
College or graduate school 53 14.8   Foreign born 20 1.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 5 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 18 1.1
  Population 25 years and over 1,096 100.0       Not a citizen 2 0.1
Less than 9th grade 93 8.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 166 15.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 412 37.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 20 100.0
Some college, no degree 224 20.4   Europe 10 50.0
Associate degree 60 5.5   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 96 8.8   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 45 4.1   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 10 50.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 76.4 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,503 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,264 100.0   English only 1,478 98.3
Never married 154 12.2   Language other than English 25 1.7
Now married, except separated 891 70.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.1
Separated 17 1.3   Spanish 23 1.5
Widowed 79 6.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.1
 Female 58 4.6   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 123 9.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 67 5.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2 0.1
                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 1,585 100.0
           under 18 years 22 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,106 69.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 10 45.5   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 2 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,190 100.0   Dutch 16 1.0
Civilian veterans 163 13.7   English 136 8.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 14 0.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 7 0.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 112 7.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 347 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 57 16.4   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 947 100.0   Irish¹ 104 6.6
With a disability 219 23.1   Italian 11 0.7
 Percent employed 39.7 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 728 76.9   Norwegian 26 1.6
 Percent employed 73.6 (X)   Polish 25 1.6
     Population 65 years and over 207 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 104 50.2   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 62 3.9
        Scottish 65 4.1
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,503 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 987 65.7   Swedish 4 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 506 33.7   Swiss 18 1.1
 Same county 311 20.7   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 195 13.0   United States or American 324 20.4
  Same state 79 5.3   Welsh 8 0.5
  Different state 116 7.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 8 0.5
Elsewhere in 1995 10 0.7   Other ancestries 164 10.3
             
-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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