DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Alleghany County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 10,677 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,029 | 100.0 | Native | 10,236 | 95.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 113 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 10,223 | 95.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 4.1 | State of residence | 7,005 | 65.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 988 | 48.7 | Different state | 3,218 | 30.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 452 | 22.3 | Born outside United States | 13 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 392 | 19.3 | Foreign born | 441 | 4.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 362 | 3.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 106 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,829 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 335 | 3.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,136 | 14.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,367 | 17.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,488 | 31.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 441 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,453 | 18.6 | Europe | 38 | 8.6 | |
| Associate degree | 471 | 6.0 | Asia | 51 | 11.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 643 | 8.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 271 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 352 | 79.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.0 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,126 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,994 | 100.0 | English only | 9,505 | 93.9 | |
| Never married | 1,393 | 15.5 | Language other than English | 621 | 6.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,695 | 63.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 359 | 3.5 | |
| Separated | 187 | 2.1 | Spanish | 516 | 5.1 | |
| Widowed | 868 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 306 | 3.0 | |
| Female | 711 | 7.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 65 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 851 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 441 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 40 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 35 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,677 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 86 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,995 | 74.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 58 | 67.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 10 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,621 | 100.0 | Dutch | 148 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,151 | 13.4 | English | 1,211 | 11.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 72 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 11 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 779 | 7.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,900 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 130 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,097 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 718 | 6.7 | |
| With a disability | 1,325 | 21.7 | Italian | 88 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 52.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,772 | 78.3 | Norwegian | 34 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 79.1 | (X) | Polish | 46 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,979 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 943 | 47.7 | Russian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 433 | 4.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 147 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,126 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,572 | 64.9 | Swedish | 39 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,273 | 32.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,751 | 17.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,522 | 15.0 | United States or American | 2,965 | 27.8 | |
| Same state | 859 | 8.5 | Welsh | 33 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 663 | 6.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 281 | 2.8 | Other ancestries | 1,203 | 11.3 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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