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Yancey County:Price 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 1,283 100.0
      enrolled in school 220 100.0   Native 1,257 98.0
Nursery school, preschool 12 5.5       Born in United States 1,257 98.0
Kindergarten 23 10.5           State of residence 987 76.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 102 46.4           Different state 270 21.0
High school (grades 9-12) 51 23.2       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 32 14.5   Foreign born 26 2.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 26 2.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 22 1.7
  Population 25 years and over 880 100.0       Not a citizen 4 0.3
Less than 9th grade 73 8.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 187 21.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 323 36.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 26 100.0
Some college, no degree 161 18.3   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 36 4.1   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 70 8.0   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 30 3.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 26 100.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 70.5 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,192 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,049 100.0   English only 1,148 96.3
Never married 130 12.4   Language other than English 44 3.7
Now married, except separated 741 70.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 37 3.1
Separated 16 1.5   Spanish 44 3.7
Widowed 80 7.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 37 3.1
 Female 59 5.6   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 82 7.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 31 3.0   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 1,283 100.0
           under 18 years 19 100.0     Total ancestries reported 958 74.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 0 0.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,020 100.0   Dutch 6 0.5
Civilian veterans 135 13.2   English 104 8.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 7 0.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 51 4.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 244 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 34 13.9   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 747 100.0   Irish¹ 47 3.7
With a disability 192 25.7   Italian 10 0.8
 Percent employed 47.4 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 555 74.3   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 74.2 (X)   Polish 37 2.9
     Population 65 years and over 201 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 97 48.3   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 78 6.1
        Scottish 32 2.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,192 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 748 62.8   Swedish 21 1.6
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 384 32.2   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 172 14.4   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 212 17.8   United States or American 425 33.1
  Same state 113 9.5   Welsh 32 2.5
  Different state 99 8.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 60 5.0   Other ancestries 108 8.4
             
-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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