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Yancey County:South Toe 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 2,343 100.0
      enrolled in school 457 100.0   Native 2,292 97.8
Nursery school, preschool 20 4.4       Born in United States 2,284 97.5
Kindergarten 36 7.9           State of residence 1,568 66.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 237 51.9           Different state 716 30.6
High school (grades 9-12) 109 23.9       Born outside United States 8 0.3
College or graduate school 55 12.0   Foreign born 51 2.2
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 34 1.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 11 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 1,694 100.0       Not a citizen 40 1.7
Less than 9th grade 213 12.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 309 18.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 514 30.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 51 100.0
Some college, no degree 210 12.4   Europe 13 25.5
Associate degree 79 4.7   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 247 14.6   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 122 7.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 33 64.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 69.2 (X)   Northern America 5 9.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 21.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 2,232 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,943 100.0   English only 2,155 96.6
Never married 352 18.1   Language other than English 77 3.4
Now married, except separated 1,232 63.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 28 1.3
Separated 48 2.5   Spanish 45 2.0
Widowed 143 7.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 28 1.3
 Female 113 5.8   Other Indo-European languages 18 0.8
Divorced 168 8.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 83 4.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 7 0.3
                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 2,343 100.0
           under 18 years 51 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,823 77.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 15 29.4   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 6 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,849 100.0   Dutch 18 0.8
Civilian veterans 242 13.1   English 168 7.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 25 1.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 0 0.0
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 262 11.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 458 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 45 9.8   Hungarian 7 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,419 100.0   Irish¹ 229 9.8
With a disability 432 30.4   Italian 20 0.9
 Percent employed 62.7 (X)   Lithuanian 11 0.5
No disability 987 69.6   Norwegian 0 0.0
 Percent employed 72.0 (X)   Polish 5 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 355 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 146 41.1   Russian 8 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 170 7.3
        Scottish 64 2.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 2,232 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 1,509 67.6   Swedish 2 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 698 31.3   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 304 13.6   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 394 17.7   United States or American 564 24.1
  Same state 176 7.9   Welsh 0 0.0
  Different state 218 9.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 25 1.1   Other ancestries 264 11.3
             
-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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