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Yancey County:Ramseytown 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 628 100.0
      enrolled in school 57 100.0   Native 572 91.1
Nursery school, preschool 0 0.0       Born in United States 572 91.1
Kindergarten 11 19.3           State of residence 378 60.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 39 68.4           Different state 194 30.9
High school (grades 9-12) 0 0.0       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 7 12.3   Foreign born 56 8.9
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 56 8.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 0 0.0
  Population 25 years and over 457 100.0       Not a citizen 56 8.9
Less than 9th grade 38 8.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 113 24.7   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 193 42.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 56 100.0
Some college, no degree 66 14.4   Europe 0 0.0
Associate degree 17 3.7   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 26 5.7   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 4 0.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 56 100.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 67.0 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 6.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 576 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 518 100.0   English only 520 90.3
Never married 96 18.5   Language other than English 56 9.7
Now married, except separated 353 68.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 56 9.7
Separated 6 1.2   Spanish 56 9.7
Widowed 29 5.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 56 9.7
 Female 11 2.1   Other Indo-European languages 0 0.0
Divorced 34 6.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 15 2.9   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 628 100.0
           under 18 years 9 100.0     Total ancestries reported 481 76.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 9 100.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 518 100.0   Dutch 0 0.0
Civilian veterans 72 13.9   English 82 13.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 0 0.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 33 5.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 73 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 3 4.1   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 412 100.0   Irish¹ 14 2.2
With a disability 130 31.6   Italian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 50.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 282 68.4   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 73.8 (X)   Polish 0 0.0
     Population 65 years and over 91 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 64 70.3   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 12 1.9
        Scottish 0 0.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 576 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 395 68.6   Swedish 0 0.0
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 125 21.7   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 89 15.5   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 36 6.3   United States or American 255 40.6
  Same state 12 2.1   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 24 4.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 56 9.7   Other ancestries 85 13.5
             
-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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