DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ashe 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 | 24,384 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,610 | 100.0 | Native | 23,917 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 249 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 23,844 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 241 | 5.2 | State of residence | 18,478 | 75.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,157 | 46.8 | Different state | 5,366 | 22.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,168 | 25.3 | Born outside United States | 73 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 795 | 17.2 | Foreign born | 467 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 271 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 121 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,722 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 346 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,477 | 14.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,087 | 17.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,910 | 33.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 467 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,050 | 17.2 | Europe | 63 | 13.5 | |
| Associate degree | 1,057 | 6.0 | Asia | 33 | 7.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,449 | 8.2 | Africa | 2 | 0.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 692 | 3.9 | Oceania | 8 | 1.7 | |
| Latin America | 346 | 74.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.6 | (X) | Northern America | 15 | 3.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,091 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,428 | 100.0 | English only | 22,319 | 96.7 | |
| Never married | 3,503 | 17.1 | Language other than English | 772 | 3.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 13,056 | 63.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 384 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 449 | 2.2 | Spanish | 612 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,784 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 307 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 1,518 | 7.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 121 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,636 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 747 | 3.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 36 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 24,384 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 226 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,557 | 72.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 105 | 46.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,533 | 100.0 | Dutch | 320 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,534 | 13.0 | English | 2,713 | 11.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 343 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 78 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,590 | 10.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,307 | 100.0 | Greek | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 390 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 38 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,366 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,608 | 6.6 | |
| With a disability | 3,547 | 24.7 | Italian | 306 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 50.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,819 | 75.3 | Norwegian | 53 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 78.4 | (X) | Polish | 244 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,188 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 15 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,115 | 50.5 | Russian | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 734 | 3.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 596 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,091 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,920 | 64.6 | Swedish | 126 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,000 | 34.6 | Swiss | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 4,791 | 20.7 | Ukrainian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,209 | 13.9 | United States or American | 5,601 | 23.0 | |
| Same state | 1,852 | 8.0 | Welsh | 71 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,357 | 5.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 171 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 2,026 | 8.3 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
