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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Haywood 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 19,797 100.0
      enrolled in school 4,975 100.0   Native 19,465 98.3
Nursery school, preschool 429 8.6       Born in United States 19,449 98.2
Kindergarten 329 6.6           State of residence 16,726 84.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 2,503 50.3           Different state 2,723 13.8
High school (grades 9-12) 1,263 25.4       Born outside United States 16 0.1
College or graduate school 451 9.1   Foreign born 332 1.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 180 0.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 172 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 12,421 100.0       Not a citizen 160 0.8
Less than 9th grade 1,830 14.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 2,437 19.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 4,656 37.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 332 100.0
Some college, no degree 1,797 14.5   Europe 18 5.4
Associate degree 323 2.6   Asia 22 6.6
Bachelor's degree 845 6.8   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 533 4.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 280 84.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 65.6 (X)   Northern America 12 3.6
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 18,384 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 15,317 100.0   English only 17,693 96.2
Never married 4,001 26.1   Language other than English 691 3.8
Now married, except separated 7,536 49.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 215 1.2
Separated 574 3.7   Spanish 570 3.1
Widowed 1,576 10.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 215 1.2
 Female 1,272 8.3   Other Indo-European languages 88 0.5
Divorced 1,630 10.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 896 5.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 16 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 19,797 100.0
           under 18 years 776 100.0     Total ancestries reported 16,115 81.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 390 50.3   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 14 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 9 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 14,434 100.0   Dutch 82 0.4
Civilian veterans 1,273 8.8   English 872 4.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 86 0.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 30 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 473 2.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 4,768 100.0   Greek 14 0.1
With a disability 435 9.1   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 10,791 100.0   Irish¹ 750 3.8
With a disability 3,367 31.2   Italian 106 0.5
 Percent employed 57.0 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 7,424 68.8   Norwegian 15 0.1
 Percent employed 77.4 (X)   Polish 21 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 2,593 100.0   Portuguese 6 0.0
With a disability 1,330 51.3   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 274 1.4
        Scottish 131 0.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 18,384 100.0   Subsaharan African 41 0.2
Same house in 1995 11,132 60.6   Swedish 57 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 7,103 38.6   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 4,708 25.6   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 2,395 13.0   United States or American 2,737 13.8
  Same state 1,437 7.8   Welsh 48 0.2
  Different state 958 5.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 149 0.8   Other ancestries 10,349 52.3
 
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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