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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Fentress 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 16,625 100.0
      enrolled in school 3,601 100.0   Native 16,563 99.6
Nursery school, preschool 176 4.9       Born in United States 16,559 99.6
Kindergarten 288 8.0           State of residence 13,058 78.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 1,865 51.8           Different state 3,501 21.1
High school (grades 9-12) 931 25.9       Born outside United States 4 0.0
College or graduate school 341 9.5   Foreign born 62 0.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 30 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 44 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 11,275 100.0       Not a citizen 18 0.1
Less than 9th grade 2,916 25.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 1,903 16.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 4,188 37.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 62 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,125 10.0   Europe 32 51.6
Associate degree 202 1.8   Asia 1 1.6
Bachelor's degree 554 4.9   Africa 11 17.7
Graduate or professional degree 387 3.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 18 29.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 57.3 (X)   Northern America 0 0.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 8.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 15,621 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 13,313 100.0   English only 15,378 98.4
Never married 2,196 16.5   Language other than English 243 1.6
Now married, except separated 8,124 61.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 110 0.7
Separated 216 1.6   Spanish 164 1.0
Widowed 1,082 8.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 53 0.3
 Female 936 7.0   Other Indo-European languages 36 0.2
Divorced 1,695 12.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 19 0.1
 Female 826 6.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 43 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 38 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 16,625 100.0
           under 18 years 312 100.0     Total ancestries reported 10,956 65.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 147 47.1   Arab 5 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 12,604 100.0   Dutch 115 0.7
Civilian veterans 1,298 10.3   English 1,239 7.5
        French (except Basque)¹ 102 0.6
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 13 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 950 5.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 3,592 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 285 7.9   Hungarian 7 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 9,703 100.0   Irish¹ 1,145 6.9
With a disability 3,040 31.3   Italian 118 0.7
 Percent employed 30.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 6,663 68.7   Norwegian 14 0.1
 Percent employed 71.7 (X)   Polish 24 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 2,172 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 1,218 56.1   Russian 33 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 254 1.5
        Scottish 167 1.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 15,621 100.0   Subsaharan African 14 0.1
Same house in 1995 9,225 59.1   Swedish 9 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 6,372 40.8   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 4,211 27.0   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 2,161 13.8   United States or American 5,177 31.1
  Same state 1,195 7.6   Welsh 19 0.1
  Different state 966 6.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 24 0.2   Other ancestries 1,551 9.3
 
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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