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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stanly 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 58,100 100.0
      enrolled in school 14,133 100.0   Native 56,595 97.4
Nursery school, preschool 933 6.6       Born in United States 56,409 97.1
Kindergarten 800 5.7           State of residence 46,115 79.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 6,825 48.3           Different state 10,294 17.7
High school (grades 9-12) 3,379 23.9       Born outside United States 186 0.3
College or graduate school 2,196 15.5   Foreign born 1,505 2.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 998 1.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 401 0.7
  Population 25 years and over 38,702 100.0       Not a citizen 1,104 1.9
Less than 9th grade 3,533 9.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 6,751 17.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 13,911 35.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,505 100.0
Some college, no degree 6,859 17.7   Europe 126 8.4
Associate degree 2,714 7.0   Asia 506 33.6
Bachelor's degree 3,540 9.1   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 1,394 3.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 843 56.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 73.4 (X)   Northern America 30 2.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 54,491 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 46,047 100.0   English only 51,941 95.3
Never married 9,115 19.8   Language other than English 2,550 4.7
Now married, except separated 28,008 60.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,335 2.4
Separated 1,449 3.1   Spanish 1,475 2.7
Widowed 3,931 8.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 899 1.6
 Female 3,229 7.0   Other Indo-European languages 330 0.6
Divorced 3,544 7.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 55 0.1
 Female 1,904 4.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 701 1.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 373 0.7
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 58,100 100.0
           under 18 years 1,048 100.0     Total ancestries reported 42,158 72.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 524 50.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 44 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 44 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 43,602 100.0   Dutch 781 1.3
Civilian veterans 5,500 12.6   English 4,334 7.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 757 1.3
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 138 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 5,815 10.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 13,099 100.0   Greek 31 0.1
With a disability 1,047 8.0   Hungarian 66 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 32,318 100.0   Irish¹ 2,881 5.0
With a disability 7,254 22.4   Italian 677 1.2
 Percent employed 61.8 (X)   Lithuanian 36 0.1
No disability 25,064 77.6   Norwegian 127 0.2
 Percent employed 81.0 (X)   Polish 358 0.6
     Population 65 years and over 7,814 100.0   Portuguese 54 0.1
With a disability 3,648 46.7   Russian 34 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 1,606 2.8
        Scottish 1,030 1.8
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 30 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 54,491 100.0   Subsaharan African 123 0.2
Same house in 1995 33,296 61.1   Swedish 189 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 20,639 37.9   Swiss 43 0.1
 Same county 11,108 20.4   Ukrainian 24 0.0
 Different county 9,531 17.5   United States or American 12,783 22.0
  Same state 6,332 11.6   Welsh 165 0.3
  Different state 3,199 5.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 34 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 556 1.0   Other ancestries 9,954 17.1
 
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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