DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Wilkes 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 | 65,632 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 13,770 | 100.0 | Native | 63,686 | 97.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,024 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 63,513 | 96.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 839 | 6.1 | State of residence | 53,987 | 82.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,696 | 48.6 | Different state | 9,526 | 14.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,187 | 23.1 | Born outside United States | 173 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,024 | 14.7 | Foreign born | 1,946 | 3.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,455 | 2.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 360 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 45,498 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,586 | 2.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,402 | 14.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 9,079 | 20.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 14,314 | 31.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,946 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 8,193 | 18.0 | Europe | 119 | 6.1 | |
| Associate degree | 2,375 | 5.2 | Asia | 270 | 13.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,487 | 7.7 | Africa | 80 | 4.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,648 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,443 | 74.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.0 | (X) | Northern America | 34 | 1.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 61,500 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 53,201 | 100.0 | English only | 58,406 | 95.0 | |
| Never married | 9,334 | 17.5 | Language other than English | 3,094 | 5.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 33,677 | 63.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,752 | 2.8 | |
| Separated | 1,255 | 2.4 | Spanish | 2,375 | 3.9 | |
| Widowed | 4,281 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,426 | 2.3 | |
| Female | 3,499 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 455 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 4,654 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 162 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,414 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 159 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 91 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 65,632 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,032 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 47,034 | 71.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 451 | 43.7 | Arab | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 50 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 45 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 50,750 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,011 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,623 | 11.1 | English | 8,621 | 13.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 687 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 79 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,669 | 7.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 12,817 | 100.0 | Greek | 64 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,179 | 9.2 | Hungarian | 64 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 38,921 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,469 | 6.8 | |
| With a disability | 9,364 | 24.1 | Italian | 681 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 54.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 28 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 29,557 | 75.9 | Norwegian | 169 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 79.5 | (X) | Polish | 342 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 8,955 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,471 | 49.9 | Russian | 117 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,850 | 2.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,038 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 61,500 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 117 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 39,817 | 64.7 | Swedish | 208 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 20,631 | 33.5 | Swiss | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 13,339 | 21.7 | Ukrainian | 80 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 7,292 | 11.9 | United States or American | 14,370 | 21.9 | |
| Same state | 4,085 | 6.6 | Welsh | 159 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 3,207 | 5.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,052 | 1.7 | Other ancestries | 7,992 | 12.2 | |
| 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)
